General Education, General-Technical Education and Integration

English Answers to questions pertaining to general education and basic subjects, as well as to vocational education (general-technical education in particular) and the principle of integration cannot be reduced to formal speculations or to bare definitions, no matter how elegant and correct. In our era, which is the era of logic and of data-processing, of automation and computers--the analysis of the question of general and general-technical education and the corresponding basic subjects of contemporary education must have the qualities of logical and epistemological necessity. The renaissance of formal and mathematical logic in contemporary general education and the inroads made by these subjects into the content and structure of contemporary vocational training--are facts and trends without precedence in the history of education and school. Other developments from which there can be no retreat are the inclusion of data-processing into the content and structure of the general education school, and the heavy reliance on mathematics in the process of vocational training, combined with elements of cybernetics, formal and mathematical logic, and science of management and control. Also, the time has come for a new principle of teaching, the principle of integration.