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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 25, 1983 39
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ORT Curriculum Reflecting 'High Tech' World of the Future
By DR. WILLIAM HABER
(Editor's note: Dr.
Haber is a former dean
and adviser to the execu-
tive officers at the Uni-
versity of Michigan and
honorary president of the
Central Board of the
World ORT Union. These
remarks- were prepared
for the Southeast Region
convention of Women's
American ORT.)
We are even now engulfed
by the tides of economic
change. The way people
earn their livelihoods, the
sources of energy, the
is at the heart of the change
now advancing practically
everywhere in ORT.
Imagine a society
where only one out of
three workers has to
"produce" and by the
year 2000, it will be one
out of four. I am trying to
indicate that ORT must
be involved in the occu-
pations of the year 2000,
not only for production
(robot) but for the rest of
life, the service trades,
the educational skills and
all the occupations with a
bright future.
What I find even more
satisfying is that ORT is not
waiting for that future to be
imposed upon us, but is in
the vanguard of that move-
ment.
The establishment of
post-secondary education as
a feature of ORT is a major
element in the changing
structure of ORT
everywhere. The ORT
School of Engineering in
Jerusalem is a beacon at
that level. What is not so
well known is that there are
six other educational units
in that category in ORT.
What is happening is the
transformation of ORT into
a high-technology educa-
tional system, and an up-
ward transformation of the
tools of learning in line with
the most advanced avail-
able.
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DR. WILLIAM HABER
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RO YAL WI NE CO RP , NEW YO RK,
means of transportation
and communication are rad-
ically different from what
they were even a few de-
cades ago.
Even the language to ex-
press these new forces
rushes in upon us. altering
our very perceptions of the
world about us and the
terms with which to de-
scribe them. Telecommuni-
cations, robotics, lasers,
computerization, bioen-
gineering, software, scan-
ners — a whole new vocab-
ulary is being invented to
identify emerging proc-
esses.
The label under which
much of this comes is "high
technology." Such is the
sheer velocity of change
that what did not exist
10-15 years ago is already
ordinary and taken for
granted.
This economic trans-
formation into what is
termed the post-
industrial society is
fueled by massive in-
vestment of funds and
brainpower into re-
search and development.
We are now spending
$100 billion a year to
make today obsolete to-
morrow.
ORT is deeply involved in
these multiple revolutions
in the way people work and
the way people learn. It has
pleased me enormously that
ORT has embraced the new
technology and incorpo-
rated its elements in our
schools. I have been excited
at the openness to change at
every level in ORT.
Far from any institu-
tional resistance to new
ways and new ideas, I have
witnessed an ORT that is
leading the educational
process into the future.
One of the fastest growing
occupations, practically ev-
erywhere in the modern
world is the technician and
that occupational category
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