Word: vocationalizing
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Each day begins at 5:30 in the morning, ends around 9 at night. And it has been that way since last July for James Roosevelt Jr., 18. That's when he entered the Mont La Salle Novitiate of the Brothers of the Christian Schools near Napa, Calif. The...
Our conclusion, then," it said, "is that the aim of education should be to prepare an individual to become an expect both in some particular vocation or art and in the general art of the free man and the citizen. Thus the two kinds of education (general and special) once...
Giovanni grew up in a devout home "where in every room an emaciated man hung dying for our sake." He automatically accepted ordination as a priest (the novel never makes clear in what country or what faith) and never questioned his vocation until one day he hears the confession of...
The tone tends to be annoying rather than actually offensive. It does, however, become incredibly pompous in Siegfried Giedion's article on "Continuity and Change in the Vocation of the Architect" when Giedion quotes himself three times.
Kennedy graduated from Harvard in June, 1940--very much pleased with his senior year's work. In the Yearbook he listed his intended vocation as law. His Winthrop House room-mate Charles Rousmaniere (now chairman of the Harvard Alumni Fund) says Kennedy told most questioners that he wished to go...