Excerpt from Self-Culture Through the Vocation There is today a nation-wide awaken ing to the need of vocational education. We have come to see that if education is to equip adequately for happy and helpful life, it must prepare every in dividual to take hold somewhere, in work that is worth while, and make an effective contribution. There is no more pathetic spectacle than the culti yated ne'er-do-well - the man Of fine appreciation and liberalized spirit, who is unable to do any one thing effectively; and so drifts through life, his refined sensibilities perpetually tortured by economic failure. Education fails if it does not do everything possible to avoid such tragedy. 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.