INFORMATION

PREPARING TO LIVE AND TO EARN

BY

WILLIAM G. BATE

SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, RICHMOND, INDIANA

AND

ELIZA ANN WILSON
SUPERVISOR OF VOCATIONAL STUDIES, RICHMOND, INDIANA

UNIV. OF
CALIFORNIA

LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO.
NEW YORK CHICAGO BOSTON TORONTO

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 32

Grateful acknowledgments are due to those who have gener-
ously furnished illustrations: to The International Harvester
Company for The School Bus, The Market Gardeners, The Ox
Team, The Horse Plow, The Modern Tractor, Women in Office
Work, The District Nurse, The Exchange of Money for Food,
and Capital Represented by Farm Buildings and Stock; to
Perkins, Fellows & Hamilton for the Modern High School in
the "Educational Progress" group; to The Gruen Watch Com-
pany for Every Trade Calls for Accuracy and Thoroughness; to
The Pennsylvania Railroad for the group entitled "Co-operation”
and for the freight yards included in the group "American Trans-
portation"; to The Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company for
The Curtiss Carrier Pigeon in the "American Transportation"
group; to The Chevrolet Motor Company for Women Inspecting
Valves in an Automobile Factory; to The Standard Electric
Stove Company for The Well-Kept Kitchen, A Delight to the
Homemaker; to John Wanamaker New York for The Living
Room, A Delight to the Homemaker, photographed in "The
Little Home that Budget Built"; to The American Telephone
and Telegraph Company for City and Country Joined by the
Telephone, and for A Radio Speech Input Equipment; to The
Studebaker Corporation of America for the Modern Industrial
Plant included under "Capital."

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AUMROTILIAD

COPYRIGHT, 1926

LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO.

MADE IN THE UNITED STATES

This series of studies has been developed in response to the need felt in one school system where it was determined to give the boys and girls an opportunity to study some of the important facts which they should know when they start out to plan their life work. The book is designed to be used as a manual and as a regular textbook. In these chapters we have attempted to present some of the fundamental facts in the general field of vocational studies, and to suggest the possibilities of planning a semester of work as a joint project of class and teacher.

The lessons that follow are largely the result of the study and observation of classes which have taken the course in three successive years, with emphasis from the start on the importance and nobility of finding the work one can do best, so that each will contribute his particular service to the community besides earning a living in the most competent way.

The pupils observed workers at their tasks, talked to their friends and acquaintances about employments of various kinds, collected articles from newspapers and magazines, clipped pictures and other illustrative material for their scrap books and for the bulletin board. The materials thus collected formed the basis for class discussions.

This course, if conducted liberally, will offer wide scope as an aid to the appreciation and art of reading. It also

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offers favorable conditions for correlation with the work in English composition. The subject matter from reading, and notes taken in class or on excursions furnish ample material in which the pupil has a lively interest for written work that should give the teacher of English a vast opportunity for constructive criticism.

The notebook work forms a valuable and important part of this course. At its conclusion, the pupil should have a great deal of material of permanent value with reference to work in general, a number of analyses of particular jobs, quotations, biographical sketches and compositions that emphasize the human interest side of work.

There has been no attempt on the part of those who have contributed to these studies to produce anything new or essentially different from the books already written. Rather, they have attempted to gather together as much of the material as is already available and to combine with its use as many as possible of those sources of first hand information that to a more or less extent are present in every community. They are deeply indebted to those authors who have made valuable contributions to this field of education and to whom they have referred at the close of the chapters. They also wish to express their appreciation and acknowledgment of the help received from the many authors of reports and magazine articles in this field; and especially of the assistance of Mr. J. W. Beck, Miss Alma Wagner, Mr. E. C. Cline and Mr. E. E. Rice in the development and trial of the materials in classes; and of the frontispiece designed by Miss Nellie Mawhood.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. SOME REASONS FOR THESE STUDIES

II. A PLAN FOR THE WORK IN THIS COURSE

III. QUALITIES THAT MAKE FOR SUCCESS

IV. SOME ELEMENTARY FACTS IN ECONOMICS

V. THE WORLD'S WORK.

VI. MAN AND HIS JOB

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