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    "ocrText": "- 2 -\nment of Social Work education and in the establishment of high profes-\nsional standards.\nNow it is not difficult to talk about cooperation between education\nand social work because the two professions have basically so much in\ncommon. They both deal with human beings from the carliest years of their\nlives into adulthóod. And if I understand the larger purposes of social\nwork they are very much like the purposes of education in a democracy.\nThe educator has two primary responsibilities (1) to cultivate certain\nskills, attitudes, and knowledge which the individual needs to live an\neffective and satisfying life in our society, and (2) to make possible\nthe modification of society to the end that a fuller life may be achieved\nby all. I see a close parallel between these goals and those mentioned\nby Miss Charlotte Towle in the April 1949 issue of the Social Nork Journal.\nIn speaking of the principal responsibilities of social workers she says\nthat there is urgent need for social work \"to help individuals through\ncase work or group work mothods, to make more productive use of their\nenvironments, and maximum use of their potentialities, and to reshape\nsocial institutions which are failing to fulfill their functions. Now\nit is true that social workers deal with those whose lives have scmehow\ngot out of joint with their environment, while educators deal to a larger\ndegree with those whose lives are in a process of relatively normal develop-\nment. As I see it, however, the two professions are moving closer together\nin this respect for the social worker is increasingly influential in the"
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