Junior Wage EarnersMacmillan, 1920 - 171 páginas |
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Página 77 - I crossed these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues, on which line and in its proper column I might mark by a little black spot, every fault I found upon examination to have been committed respecting that virtue upon that day.
Página 110 - He who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows out that plan, carries on a thread which will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.
Página 17 - ... enter at six and seven than who enter at eight and nine. Under present conditions, then, children should begin school when they are six or seven years old. Children should graduate at fourteen or fifteen. A change ought to and does come over children at that time which demands a less maternalistic environment than that of the elementary school. They are gripped by a new spirit of energy and independence which demands either the larger liberty of the high-school or the obligations of business.
Página 161 - A Survey of Commercial Education in the Public High Schools of the United States.
Página 14 - That boy can't speak English, and he gets six dollars. I only get four dollars, and I've been through the sixth grade." "When my brother is fourteen, I'm going to get him a job here. Then, my mother says, we'll take the baby out of the 'Sylum for the Half Orphans." "School ain't no good. When you works a whole month at school, the teacher she gives you a card to take home, that says how you ain't any good.
Página 123 - In the old age, educators assumed that juvenile employment was a legislative problem; in the new age, they are coming to see that it is an educational problem— that it means the recognition of juvenile employment as a legitimate and constructive factor in education.
Página 157 - The guidance of boys and girls in the ' choice of careers means simply the extension of labour market organization in connection with the schools. It means substituting for the haphazard entry into industrial life — the taking of the first job that offers — entry informed by wider knowledge of possibilities and prospects. Moreover, in order to be effective this guidance must be fairly general. It implies a juvenile Labour Exchange dealing with a substantial portion both of the supply and of the...
Página 123 - A debilitating by-product of measuring out of uniform lessons is the establishment, early in the child's plastic mind, that the thing to do in life is to do what is measured out for one to do — never any more under any circumstances, and as much less as possible under all circumstances.
Página 14 - Briefly stated the fundamental philosophy of the movement is based on a frank recognition of the fact that the school has too frequently taught children how to fail, and has convinced them that "education" was something in which they could never have any possible interest because it bore no relation to any life of which they had any conception. It further recognizes that the chief duty of the public school is to develop in all children, especially in those who must soon face the problems of self-support,...
Página 49 - Placement: n phase of vocational guidance. Sierra Educational News, 9 : 723-25, November, 1913. Woman's Municipal League of the City of New York. When all life is before you. In Women and the city's work. (Leaflet publication. Vol. Ill, No. 33, May 14, 1918. 6 p.) Summarizes study of 42 agencies In New York City engaged In placement and vocational guidance work. 9. Studies of School-leaving and Employment. Abels, Margaret Hutton.