Vocational Guidance

the factory, separated almost entirely from the life of the child, whose education, on the other hand, is supervised and controlled by an authority who is not likely to be familiar with any of the activities in which the boy will eventually engage. Thus there is no longer in this modern community that correlation between the boy's early and later life which prevailed in more primitive groups. To effect this correlation and make the individual's life efficient through continuous development is the aim of the vocational guide. But in order to obtain the most efficient development it is necessary to have the individual's work adapted to his inherent capacities and inclinations. One person might have from the beginning the training necessary for a lawyer or a physician, and yet, because of inherent incapacity, be nothing more than a day laborer. Another individual, having the genius of a Pestalozzi, a Wagner, or a Mill, but not displaying these capacities early, might be initiated into the mechanical work of a blacksmith, plumber, or bricklayer. With these facts in view, "Vocational guidance