CHAPTER XVIII 



THE FARM BOY'S CHOICE OF A VOCATION 



TURN which way you will upon the great broad 

 highway of life and there you will always be able to 

 find the wrecks and broken forms of humankind 

 men and women who have failed in their life pur- 

 poses. Strange to say, that particular aspect of the 

 science of character-buildimpwhich has to do with the 

 substantial preparaT^oji^or vocational life has been 

 very much neglected. By what rule do men suc- 

 ceed in their callings and by what different rule do 

 other men fail ? Are some foreordained to success 

 and others to failure ? Is there an inherent strength 

 in some and a native weakness in others ? Is there a 

 type of education and training which specifically fits 

 and prepares for each of the native callings ? None 

 of these questions has been thoroughly gone into 

 with a view to finding out what were best to be done 

 and what best to leave undone. So, we blunder 

 away, hit or miss, in the vocational training of our 

 boys and girls. 



SHOULD THE FARMER'S SON FARM ? 



In attempting to give helpful suggestions to farm 



parents relative to their boy's vocation, perhaps this 



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