Casey High School - Flame Yearbook (Casey, IL)

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Katherine Hartman Mary Huntington Flo Drumm Why We Want to Learn About Vocations It has been said of life, that living is learning and learning is a life career. Now you see why we go to school to study agriculture, commerce, home economics, manual training, music and arts—because they are our life and our career. They make us skilled workers rather than unskilled workers. As we grasp the fundamentals of these subjects through study, we gradually make ourselves into skilled workers; but if we do not study, we will be unskilled workers. While we are acquiring this knowledge, we are gaining a sense of management and proprietorship. In arranging our periods of work and in planning our methods and the things we do, we obtain the idea that we can direct our labors as others do and make them profitable to ourselves and to society. Commerce teaches us methods by which to realize these profits. It teaches us how to run businesses and to be a part of them. Although many do not realize it, music and the other arts are business careers even though long study and training are needed to make the work of artists valuable to society. Agriculture and home economics also offer wide fields for vocations because of the value to everyday life of good farmers and homemakers and also because men and women are needed as experimenters in plant and soil analysis and soil conservation and as dietitians and chefs. A man must study to become what he is. He may not immediately step out into his career but may simply prepare in high school for future study in college and in advanced courses. But often he goes into his selected work because he had a chance to do the work he liked while living and learning in Our Town . 13