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CHAPTER . AIMS AND CONTENTS OF EDUCATION AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

In many countries, the traditional diversified secondary school system is now in process of reorganization for the dual purpose of making secondary education more universally available to all youth and of training such youth both in accordance with individual interests and aptitudes and to meet the demands of society. Under the Education Act of 1944 in England, the 1959 Educational Reform of France and also the 1959 Educational Reform Plan of West Germany, each of these countries has changed its old secondary schools, which were conventional and served primarily the interests of certain segments of the population, into three types of school -one for basic secondary education for applicants for admission to schools of higher grade; another for technical education; and a third for the completion of general education. In such reorganization, the secondary school system is organized to attain definite objectives of education, while at the same time democratizing the secondary schools by permitting transfers between the three types of schools.