They will have to be put together, by combining the last two years of high school either with, the junior college or with the four-year college, before we shall get far. The first solution seems to me preferable. Of course, an administrative change like this will not of itself solve our problem, although it does enable us to concentrate on it. The present-day colleges are not doing their job because they are not clear as to what the job is. Perhaps we might have an undergraduate population who really want the kind of education the college is prepared to give.
Selection is the heart of the problem.
In the future we are probably going to have to provide some kind of training or education for all our young people up to the age of 20. We shall have to do this because industry will have no place for them. We shall be able to afford it because we have advanced technologically to a point where we no longer need the labor of children and adolescents. If we are to arrive at a satisfactory answer we must once and for all reject the notion that in a democracy everybody is entitled to the same amount and to the same kind of education. We must put to its place the idea that everybody is entitled to the amount and kind of education that he can demonstrably put to beneficial use.