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 \nIn democracy,nothing is more important than men,women,and children.That's our belief.That's what our Declarationof Independence,Constitution,and Bill of Rights stand for.Nothing counts more than making the best of ourselves—forour own sakes as individuals,and for the benefit of all of us.Our happiness,our well-being,our liberty and security,dependon ourselves.The sum of the training,skills,and abilities ofus all adds up to America's manpower total.That's what makesus what we are;that's our greatest resource.  \nSo,the thing is to see that our human resources are giventhe best chance to develop.Thomas Jefferson thought thateach citizen should have available the highest level of educa-tion for which he was qualified.Our belief in \"educationalopportunity for all\"accounts for the American public schoolsystem to help prepare young people for life and for work.Nevertheless,there is a good deal of evidence that,in thetraining and use of our human resources,there's room for im-provement.In this technological age,we're still the furthest ad-vanced nation.But our technological development—so directlyresponsible for our high standard of living and our security一depends on having enough skilled scientists and engineers,andenough trained technicians,to keep it progressing.We're wak-ing up to the fact that here's one place where we're runningvery short.We're running short elsewhere,too—short onteachers,for example.The importance of having plenty ofgood teachers is clear.It's not just because they teach but be-cause part of their job is to build character so that young Amer-icans can make the best of life in general.They help prepareus in the fundamentals of good citizenship on which the qual-ity of our government depends.Inspiring teachers stimulateable students to seek further training to increase their chancesof making the most of themselves.  \nAre we shortchanging ourselves in the preparation and useof our human resources in general?What's the effect on oureconomy of the fact that it is tougher for certain citizens,be-cause of color,to get training to develop their best abilities?What's the total result of the reluctance to hire older workers?How about drop-outs of young people in school?Because two-fifths yearly leave high school before graduation,isn't therea tremendous loss of potential manpower?We should look into these things.They're important for each of us.We ourselves are the vital issue.  \nCover by Stuart Judd,Jr.  \nEDITORIAL ADVISORY cOMMITTEE:Dr.James W.Fesler,Professor of Government,Yale University;Dr.Kent RobertsGreenfield,Chief Historian,United States Army,Washington,D.C.;Dr.Allan Nevins,Professor of American History,Columbia University,President of the Society of American Historians;Dr.Robert E.Spiller,Chairman of Committee onAmerican Civilization,University of Pennsylvania,President of the American Studies Association,a national societyfor the study of American civilization.  \n—  Editor:Townsend Scudder,Executive Director of the Center:—  \nFirst Printing December,1955  \nfor all to help prepare for life and for work.It's traditionalwith American parents to hope that their children will dobetter than themselves--and it's good to see how often,in ourU.S.A.,this belief works out.  \n## HOW GOOD IS THE SELF-STARTER?\n\nBecoming a working part of the nation's manpower is a bitlike getting a car going in cold weather.The engine needs towarm up.  \nAs for jobs waiting to be filled,they scale all the way fromthe unskilled laborer's to Albert Einstein's.If we consider thegeneral job-holding situation during or at the end of highschool,here is how it stacks up.A semi-skilled worker—andfor our work force of over sixty-five million,it's less and lesslikely for any j","cbCaib25N8MgpmAU","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaib25N8MgpmAU","pdf",418822,"English","# AMERICA’S MANPOWER RESOURCES-ARE WE MAKING THE MOST OF OURSELVES?\n## HOW GOOD IS THE SELF-STARTER?","[{\"question\":\"Why does the guide say human resources are the nation’s vital issue?\",\"answer\":\"It states that America’s sum of training, skills, and abilities forms the total of its manpower, which is the greatest resource. 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