| Sumario: | The article presents information on several educational trends including enrichment of the curriculum, individualization of education and reorganization of the curriculum. Enrichment or the expansion of curricular offerings, is largely wasted effort if large numbers of students cannot cope with the new courses. Individualization of education is the goal of those who recognize that the present system overwhelms the student in a confusion of academic book-keeping and time service. In actual practice much of present-day individualization involves little more than failing the nonacademic student and shunting him to a vocational school, to a job or to idleness. Such educational practice is a small concession to the demonstrable knowledge of the extent and variety of individual differences. Individualization of education does not mean one teacher and one class for each student. Instead it means putting each student into such available courses as meet the student's needs, courses which he can absorb with profit to himself and society. This could be achieved by discovering such needs through a detailed analysis of each student, instead of handing down from on high, academic pre- scrip dons for hypothetical students.
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