Does the Present Trend toward Vocational Education Threaten Liberal Culture?

Consider this passage from Ellwood Cubberly”s “Does the Present Trend toward Vocational Education Threaten Liberal Culture?”: “Perhaps no greater mistake in terms is made in our educational practice today than to say that the high school student who has had four years of Latin, three of Greek, four of English, two or ancient and mediaeval history, two of mathematics, and one year of mathematical physics has pursued a “liberal-culture” course of study. As a matter of fact his course has been narrowly technical, in that it leads to but a few selected occupations; and he is in no sense liberally educated, for he knows little about the modern world in which he lives.” Cubberly wrote this in 1911; do you agree with his assessment? Do you believe the current K-12 curriculum should be adapted to include vocational education? If so, to what extent?

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