Youth: Too Young to Choose?

Guidance and Vocational Aspects of Education: Some Considerations

“…The assumption is that such vocational maturity is also present even earlier than the eighth grade among other students. McDaniels [13] has recently stated, "Youth are not too young to choose, only too poorly prepared to make choices." The point would appear to be that vocational maturity cannot be left to happenstance, nor is premature early closure of occupational choice desirable, but avoidance of these two possibilities requires of counselors assessment of individual status with regard to vocational maturity and of the experiences necessary to such attainment.…”