The Vocational-guidance Movement: Its Problems and Possibilities

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Macmillan, 1918 - 333 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 216 - A careful analysis of all available statistics shows that in our great basic industries the workers are unemployed for an average of at least one-fifth of the year, and that at all times during any normal year there is an army of men, who can be numbered only by hundreds of thousands, who are unable to find work or who have so far degenerated that they can not or will not work.
الصفحة 200 - T'HE principal object of management should be •*• to secure the maximum prosperity for the employer, coupled with the maximum prosperity for each employe'. The words "maximum prosperity...
الصفحة 200 - In the same way maximum prosperity for each employe means not only higher wages than are usually received by men of his class, but, of more importance still, it also means the development of each man to his state of maximum efficiency, so that he may be able to do, generally speaking, the highest grade of work for which his natural abilities fit him, and it further means giving him, when possible, this class of work to do.
الصفحة 78 - ... misapplied. 7. While equality of opportunity cannot be provided by any mere change in educational methods, yet as a step in the direction of diffusing the opportunity of intelligent vocational outlook, every boy before leaving the elementary school should be given an accurate idea of the nature of the principal kinds of human work, the qualities demanded by them, the preparation required, the rewards offered, the advantages and the opportunities for usefulness which they afford.
الصفحة 21 - Indeed, the education of your youth is every way preposterous ;' you waste at school years in improving talents, without having ever spent an hour in discovering them ; one promiscuous line of instruction is followed, without regard to genius, capacity, or probable situation in the commonwealth.
الصفحة 178 - ... the ranks of industry. More than seven out of ten of this multitude did not finish the work of the elementary school. More than three out of four of them did not reach the eighth year of the schools and more than one out of two, the seventh year. Almost half of them had not completed the fifth grade work.
الصفحة 291 - ... in choosing, preparing for, entering upon, or making progress in his occupation.
الصفحة 159 - However closely psychical changes may conform to law, it is safe to say that individual histories and biographies will never be written in advance no matter how ' evolved

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