training in habits of work, and a progressive development.
A partial topic list of the results may make more clear their importance.
- Worker better trained for all work.
- Habits of correct thinking instilled.
- Preparedness provided for.
- Productive and repetitive powers increased.
- Sense powers increased.
- Habits of proper reaction established.
- "Guided original work" established.
- System of waste elimination provided.
- Method of attack taught.
- Brain fully developed.
- "Standard response" developed.
- Opportunities and demands for "thinking" provided.
- Self-reliance developed.
- Love of truth fostered.
- Moral sentiment developed.
- Resultant happiness of worker.
Results To Be Expected in the Future. — When the schools, vocational guidance and teaching under Scientific Management coöperate, the worker will not only receive the benefits now obtained from Scientific Management, but many more. There will Page 269 be nothing to unlearn, and each thing that is learned will be taught by those best fitted to teach it. The collection of vocational guidance data will begin with a child at birth, and a record of his inheritance will be kept. This will be added to as he is educated, and as various traits and tendencies appear. From this scientifically derived record will accrue such data as will assist in making clear exactly in what place the worker will be most efficient, and in what sphere he will be able to be most helpful to the world, as well as to himself. All early training will be planned to make the youth adept with his muscles, and alert, with a mind so trained that related knowledge is easily acquired.
When the vocation for which he is naturally best fitted becomes apparent, as it must from the study of the development of the youth and his desires, the school will know, and can give exactly, that training that is necessary for the vocation. It can also supplement his limitations intelligently, in case he decides to follow a vocation for which he is naturally handicapped.