4 TEACHING SCIENCE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS

 2. Relating the school to community resources and needs.
 A school should continuously raise the level of living in its
community. To do this, each school official and teacher must
have definite knowledge of the community's resources. The
natural resources are the most obvious, the cultural resources
most satisfying, the human resources most precious. A com-
munity's chief needs will become apparent as its resources are
studied.
 The program of the secondary school should be projected into
the life of the community, especially in the areas of health, home
living, applied economics, and recreation. Any agencies already
at work for the community's betterment should receive coopera-
tion. Individually and in groups, school officers and teachers
should plan and carry out instruction, direct and incidental, to
develop the community's social intelligence and sentiment.
 3. Providing a wide range of opportunities. Florida's invest-
ment in secondary schools should bring good returns in voca-
tional competence, health, personal living, and democratic citi-
zenship. To provide these a school must offer the following:
 (1) Development of individuals. The special interests
 and talents of each youth deserves the personal
 attention of principals and teachers. No student
 should be merely a name on a roll, his abilities merely
 an entry on a grade sheet. Each student's future
 place in a community-as leader or efficient work-
 er-will depend largely upon the discovery and
 cultivation of his possibilities by his teachers in
 secondary school.
 (2) Vocational guidance. Youths should make notable
 progress while in school toward self-support.
 Earnest study of vocations should be made, with
 comparisons of their required skills and economic
 rewards. Actual work experiences, and trial em-
 ployment, are within the scope of a school's well-
 planned guidance program.
 (3) Instruction in family relations. Youths in sec-
 ondary schools are rapidly developing their ideals
 of marriage, homes, and children. At this particular