Vocationalism in Education: Some Comments from Ontario

Abstract

In Ontario today education has become a topic of lively public debate. Foremost perhaps among the issues raised is the matter of financing education. This issue is of common concern to every property owner and taxpayer. Moreover suggestions to reduce education costs on property owners at the local level have usually focussed on requiring the provincial government to absorb a larger share of these costs. Such proposals, however, throw into question the concept traditional in this country of a large element of local control of education.