CONTENTS 2 Education and national goals Sterling M. McMurrin 3 Brief reports Surplus property American Education Week 5 Team teaching Stuart E. Dean 9 Revenue sources for the 1960's Eugene P. McLoone 13 Preparing the counselor Carroll H. Miller 15 Technical education Walter M. Arnold 17 New vigor in science teaching Albert Piltz 21 Why property accounting Charles T. Roberts 23 Public schools, biennial data Emery M. Foster 25 School bonds Elmer C. Deering 26 Books for the blind Frederick J. Moffitt 28 Pupil personnel services Gene C. Fusco 31 AdMinutes 33 Physical fitness of youth John F. Kennedy 36 OE publications expresses in a sense the very meaning of democracy, that there is an inevitable coincidence of the good of the individual with the good of the society taken in its totality. It is the common belief that a course of action that genuinely ministers to the dignity and intrinsic value of the individual and cultivates his talents and capabilities and encourages his commitment to high purpose will necessarily build into the social structure and the state a strength that will guarantee their full integrity and their lasting power even in great adversity. But this is an assumption that has never been fully tested by our Nation or any other nation, for in circumstances that have fundamentally challenged the strength of the democracies, as in the event of war, they have resorted to various forms of regimentation that have at certain points suspended the principles and practices normative for a democratic society. This regimentation, together with the emotional power that surges through a society in imminent danger, has strengthened us through the great crises of our past. The question that we now must ask is whether without the regimentation of human souls and their resources that we quite properly abhor and through a protracted period of collective anxiety that commonly weakens rather than strengthens a nation's character, we have the intellectual, moral, and spiritual resources to guarantee our security in the presence of totalitarian states of great power. It is now entirely clear to us that, Continued on p. 32 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUC TION, AND WELFARE • ABRAHAM A. RIBICOFF, Secretary OFFICE OF EDUCATION .. STERLING M. McMURRIN, Commissioner CARROLL B. Hanson, Director, Publications Services SCHOOL LIFE School Life reports Office planning copies, 20 cents. 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