History Of Business Education In The Secondary Schools Of Knoxville Tennessee

Author : Glen Levin Swiggett
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ISBN 13 : 9781330894538
Total Pages : 26 pages
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Download or read book Business Training and Commercial Education (Classic Reprint) written by Glen Levin Swiggett and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Business Training and Commercial Education This is due in a large measure to the fact that business training came as a late entrant to high school and college. The period of readjustment in accord with the established academic procedure in respect to admissions and graduations was and is coincident with a period of industrial and commercial expansion, the course of which has not always been under economic control. Sensing the economic gain to ensue through the correlation of training for and actual conduct of business, business educators and business men have endeavored in larger numbers and throughout a larger territory than ever before to obtain a program of coordinated educational opportunity and business need Avhich would give to business a natural movement of supply frpm the schools of bojs and girls, Tmeirand women, efficiently trained for the entafging delfmTfe and specific tasks of business. The motive of this approach has been cordial but not always timely, and has sometimes been ill-advised. Always the latter when the fundamental purpose of the public schools in a democracy Iras not been kept clearly a guiding principle in the establishment of special training courses. The division of labor in the field of distribution has not always been apparent as in that of production. The unit cost in marketing involves factors yet intangible. It is therefore difficult, involving uncertainty and change, to functionalize business training courses the major, nay the sole, purpose of which is to train for specific tasks of business. Experimentation, therefore, in this special field of educational endeavor is more evident in vocational business training than in the broader and more general aspects of liberal commercial education. And this is rightly so. We live in an economic era. Inter and intra national affairs are largely determined by economic advantages, and these are in a large degree conditioned by the magnitude of scale and measure of efficiency in management of industry and commerce. The need of constantly improved methods for increased production and salvage, in transportation, marketing, and financing, no matter in what field of development, has never been more apparent. Nor has there ever been a greater need for trained labor, whether of head or hand. The consciousness of this need has given to business education a position of commanding interest in business as well as in education. Commercial organizations. National, State, and local, place increasing emphasis on training and education for business and commerce. Programs in training for s)ecial types of business service similar in purpose and procedure to that of the American Institute of Banking have been developed and extended by other organized business service groups, for example, the National Association of Credit Men has planned a course of study to be offered by cooperative arrangement in the larger urban universities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.