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It is axiomatic that the major function of all education is to prepare people for life—life as it is, as well as life as we should like it to be. One writer has stated that “the office of education is to train for the art of living, and since life is action, an individual is truly educated, socially adjusted, only in so far as he is able to translate worthy thoughts and facts into properly directed action.”1 Vocational business education, along with other types, must fulfill the major function of education, and in so far as it fails to meet the needs of its students, both direct and indirect, it evidences certain problems which should be met.
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Pierce, J.A. (1995). The Needs and Problems of Business Education among Negroes. In: Negro Business and Business Education. Springer Studies in Work and Industry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1073-8_11
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