The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1912-06-18

located at Colora, Md. The year af-
ter that he taught in the Naval acad-
emy preparatory school at Annapolis,
Md.
Mr.. Wiley entered Lafayette college
in 1902 and was graduated in 1905,
taking the four years course in three
years. He was appointed principal of
the Hamburg, N. j., high school in
September, 1905 After remaining
there three years Mr.. Wiley was of
fered the supervising principalship of
the Newton public schools, where he
remained two years. In March, 1910,
he was appointed superintendent at
Red Bank.
The Red Bank Register has this
to say of Mr.. Wiley.-
81 Burton Wiley, who resigned frol
the position of superintendent of the
Red Bank public schools about two
months or SO ago, has been ap-
pointed superintendent of the public
schools of Morristown, at a salary of
SO. 200 per year, which is 5000 more
than he was receiving at Red Bank.
Mr.. Wiley's friends will be glad to
know of his good fortune, but the
congratulations are not all due to Mr..
Wiley. The people of Morristown,
and especially the school children of
that place, are also entitled to con-
gratulations.
"Mr. Wiley has been more than a
school teacher at Red Bank; he has
been more than superintendent of
schools; he has been vocational ad-
wiser. This last quality is counting
for more and more in these modern
days of education. IL is necessary, of
course, that teachers shall know how
to teach the three RS and that they
shall have ability as disciplinarians.
But there are plenty of teachers pos
sessing these qualities who do not
possess the faculty of aiding boys
and girls in choosing a vocation after
they leave school,
This aid in choosing vocation has
become one of the prime factors in
the success or failure of life. A
school teacher, and above all, a school
superintendent, with many children
under his guidance, has opportunity
to be of great service. Usually when
boy or girl who has to earn his or
her living leaves school, occupation is
accepted in the first thing that comes
at hand 1t may be something for
which the child is wholly unadapted,
yet it offers employment and is ac-
cepted. Frequently, too, a job offer
ing larger immediate earnings, but
with no future before it, is accepted
in preference to a job at lower inn
mediate pay, but with far better
chances of advancement.
When a boy leaves school he is
supposed to be beyond the further
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As one teacher puts it: We guide ou
boys and girls to some extent through
school, and then drop them into this
complex world to sink or swim, as
the case may be. Yet there is no
part of life where the need for guild
ance is more emphatic than in the
transition from school to work, in
the choice of a vocation, the adequate
for it, and the attainment
of efficiency and success. The build
ing of career is quite as difficult
a problem as the building of a house,
yet few persons ever sit down with
pencil and paper and with expert
counsel and expert information, to
plan working career and to deal
with the problems of life scientific
ally, as they would do with the prob |
lem of building house.
In large cities trained men are en-
ployed by school boards to aid pupils |
in selecting their life careers. Every |
one is familiar with men and women |
who do not fit their jobs. They have
not the aptitude, the inclination, the |
training, nor the mental equipment |
needed to make them successful in |
their positions. They get along |
but they take no interest in their
work; they put in one day after an
other with no pride in what they are
doing; life with them becomes dreary |
and monotonous Everyone is familiar
with men and women who have found |
exactly the jobs which suit them |
They are eager for their work; they |
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