himself early, accurately, and with certainty, is the
problem of vocational guidance."




VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE FOR GIRLS


CHAPTER I

WOMAN'S PLACE IN SOCIETY


Any scheme of education must be built upon answers to two basic
questions: first, What do we desire those being educated to become?
second, How shall we proceed to make them into that which we desire
them to be?

In our answers to these questions, plans for education fall naturally
into two great divisions. One concerns itself with ideals; the other,
with methods. No matter how complex plans and theories may become, we
may always reach back to these fundamental ideas: What do we want to
make? How shall we make it?

Applying this principle to the education of girls, we ask, first: What
ought girls to be? And with this simple question we are plunged
immediately into a vortex of differing opinions.

Girls ought to be--or ought to be in the way of becoming--whatever the