Excerpt from Vocational Guidance: The Teacher as a Counselor This book, like The Boy and His Gang, springs directly from personal experiences in the Lyman School for Boys, the Industrial School of Massachusetts for delinquent boys. Under the efficient leadership of Superintendent T. F. Chapin, this school has been made over from one of the old military type to a free school where boys, through learning to do by doing, are given a chance to obtain a practical common-sense education. The school is an industrial school in fact as well as in name. It could justly be called a vocational school, for many of the boys obtain here the guidance and training for their life work. The great majority of the four hundred boys are from twelve to sixteen years of age, the right age for guidance. One half of their day is spent in the schoolroom and one half in manual training in the shops or in outdoor work. A short daily period and Saturday afternoon are given to play. In the free life of the school the new boys soon learn by conversation with their older and more experienced cottage mates, or with their masters or teachers, and by personal observation in the various shops, the kind of work which they would like to do. Instruction in agriculture was given once a week in all the schoolrooms. A school garden plot was planted and cared for by each boy in school hours. Two cottages also had garden plots for the boys. Instruction in dairying was given to about twenty-five boys in connection with the practical work of caring for the herd of sixty milch cows. Opportunities for driving the school teams were open to four or five boys. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.