One consequence of the over-all shift in educational 
budgeting, that is the relatively small expenditure of 
public education as compared with business, armed 
services and entertainment, implies a completion of 
a great cycle and a return to the apprentice system. 
The unrest of the teenager is really indicative. Our 
technology insists that he have an adult role, if only 
because it gives him a very large portion of the 
adult world on the installment plan via 
entertainment. We have only to leave the public 
school system for children up to the age of 10 or 
12 and to abandon compulsory education. If the 
rest of the young population is employed from the 
age of 12 it can escape the older segmentation