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Education Now
A Necessity
"We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without whicn a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society . . . We have truly entered the century of the educated man." The then Vice-President, Lyndon Johnson, said those words in a commencement address in 1963. Their truth is becoming clearer every day. Many young Americans are answering the challenge to become better educated. Last year. 18 percent of our young people between the ages of lb24 were high school dropouts, as compared with 25 percent in I960.
But this reduction is not enough. The frightening fact remains that too many teenagers still consider education a luxury. At the current dropout rate, by 1975 there will be 32 million adults in the labor force without a high school, education -- 32 million people who will be unqualified for most of tomorrow’s jobs. To stave off this tide of unskilled workers in a booming economy, President Johnson has directed the President’s Council on Youth Opportunity to launch the 1967 Stay-inSchool Campaign. livery citizen, young and old, parent and teenager, is being asked to support this drive to assure1 that all who still have a chance for a decent education stay in school and get it. A young person today, dissatisfied with school and; anxious to get out and work for the money he wants, is heading down a dead-end street if he pursues his dreams without a high school
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