ABSTRACT
American analysts have often denounced that kind of approach. In so doing they have, however, ignored economic and historical factors that foster in the American system a greater level of tolerance. American education also differs from the Chinese in its emphasis on the individual student rather than on students as a class. The whole relationship between the academy and the real world represents an area in which American society may have much to learn from the Chinese. Career education was supposed to be the American vehicle for dealing with each of these difficulties. The Chinese experience is useful in the broader area of development of a workable program in education for adults that meets needs for intellectual fulfillment and social growth. A sense of realism and fairmindedness should bring all Americans to the conviction that their ultimate goals in education may well be shared by people and societies whose ideologies differ from people own.
