Excerpt from Vocational Civics: A Study of Occupations as a Background for the Consideration of a Life-Career
The need of vocational guidance for boys and girls has increased many fold in the last year. Such alluring opportunities for the beginner have opened up, that it is hard to prove to him the necessity of a more adequate preparation. Every effort to broaden the youth's outlook before he becomes a part of the occupational world is needed at this time. Fundamental to this purpose are text books that contain facts about employment conditions and furnish data by which one may estimate the probable future in a given business or profession.
The plan and the foundation of the present volume were the result of an experiment in vocational guidance carried on for a period of years by the late Mr. Giles while he was a high school principal. A detailed account of Mr. Giles' method of procedure may be found in Vocational Guidance, U. S. Bureau of Education Bulletin, 1914, Ro. 14, pp. 52-59. Mr. Giles was constantly collecting information about vocations which he kept in a series of scrap books. These, together with his outlines and notes, form the nucleus from which this book has grown.
The new "community civics," which is being recognized as one of the most vital of junior high school studies, naturally includes a study of industries and occupations. In many schools, the new course in citizenship gives civics the first semester, and " vocations," the second. As one's work in the world is so closely allied with his loyalty as a citizen, it seems most natural to call this text book, " Vocational Civics."
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