The Search for Relevance

Abstract

Search, rejection, ferment, and revolution: our national heritage. Our forefathers, rejecting European persecutions, settled a new land and then promptly squabbled among themselves, revolted against England, brawled into a frontier America, fought each other over a Union, squabbled again over unionism, communism, capitalism, and socialism. In short, ours is a nation of protests and choices; it always has been. Today's youth is little different than yesterday's, though faces and issues change. It is, perhaps, the nature of youth to protest and seek change. Today's youth protests and searches for individual relevance. A relevance that will lead to a better people in a better society. In this search for relevance, today's youth faces career opportunities that offer broad and breathless ranges of choice, especially if their educational experience includes a technical skill. There is one enormous hitch, however. Our whole technological society is being questioned today. The Puritan ethic, which emphasized ...