VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE 



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VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE 



to help each individual make the most of his 

 abilities and opportunities." 



Placement will continue, but not as the 

 chief purpose of vocational guidance. It will 

 mean temporary relief while education pro- 

 ceeds through part-time work and study. Vo- 

 cational guidance will be universally recognized 

 as an educational process, and it will be the 

 business of all teachers, not of a few experts, 

 to direct the child to such education as will 

 pare him for the vocation of his choice. 



velop a type of character that is fundamental 

 in the management of a household. 



The great leakage now found in the eighth 

 and ninth years of school, due to the fact that 

 pupils and parents see no economic value in 

 the high school course and that the former are 

 eager for active participation in the work of 

 the world, will diminish in proportion to the 

 use made by the teacher of the awakening vo- 

 cational interest in the pupil, and the extent to 

 which school authorities modify the curricu- 



Continuation 

 Training for the 

 next higher job 



Chance 

 to Climb 



Success 

 ul Workman 



Continuation 

 Training in new 

 line of mdust 



Chance 

 to Change 



The Industrial 

 Misfit 



Chance 

 to Secure 



Training 1 to sell 

 his service 



The Job Hunter 



Grades 

 Age 



Grades 

 Age 



Chance 

 to Prepare 



Vocational 

 Training 



Pre-Vocational 

 Training 



Chance 

 to Choose 



Chance 

 to Grow 



Sense 

 Training 



INDUSTRIAL TRAINING FOR THE WORKER 

 Not industrial training for the work ; the boy is given a chance to "find his place." 



A new emphasis will be put on the guidance 

 and training of girls for wage-earning pursuits. 

 This is one of the great problems confronting 

 society to-day; no one can tell in what voca- 

 tions woman may be found within the next 

 few years. The double function of home 

 maker, which comes to ninety-five per cent of 

 the sex, and of wage earner, which comes to 

 thirty-six per cent, calls for the greatest care in 

 guidance for both pursuits. In most cases the 

 occupational life is first experienced, and if hab- 

 its of shiftlessness and instability are formed, 

 because of the failure of the girl to adjust herself 

 to the wage-earning field, it will surely prove 

 disastrous to the home. A woman in a wage- 

 earning pursuit to which she is adapted and 

 where she puts forth her best efforts will de- 



lum, that it may influence conduct rather than 

 simply present systematized knowledge. 



Educating boys and girls that they may 

 rightly choose their vocations in life will be- 

 come the controlling principle of the school cur- 

 riculum, and all subjects will be selected and 

 subject matter treated from that viewpoint. 

 Motives and interests will thus be supplied, 

 giving a needed impulse to study by arousing 

 ambition, self-pride and a desire to achieve. 



Vocations thus chosen will call forth the best 

 efforts of the individual and produce self-sup- 

 porting, happy citizens, whose success is meas- 

 ured not only by the extent to which their 

 products are the full measure of their best ef- 

 forts, but also to the extent that these prod- 

 ucts are serviceable to society. 



