Automation and the challenge to education
Subtitle: proceedings of a symposium, held in Washington, D.C.
By: Sponsored by the Project on the Educational Implications of Automation, National Education Association. Edited by Luther H. Evans and George E. Arnstein.
Contributors: Evans, Luther Harris, 1902-; Arnstein, George E.; National Education Association of the United States. Project on the Educational Implications of Automation.
Publisher: National Education Association]
Published: 1962
Place of publication: [Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Automation -- Social aspects.; Adult education.
Description: This volume provides an introductory description of impact of automation, its effects, the march of technology, and the educational efforts which will be needed to help society adjust to the inevitable changes. The working papers and discussions of an inter-disciplinary symposium held last winter in Washington, D.C., by specialists and scholars in several fields of education, the social sciences, industry, and labor. The general agreement on the topic is that automation will require more intensive education, for the welfare of both the individual and society.
Notes: "Suggested reading": p. 190. Bibliographical footnotes.