Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1914-06-18
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: Bulletin Advocate Cooperation
: WoaId Abandon AIbion-PocatellS
: Academy to be combined Witt
, High School; Junior College :
Feature.
educational Conditions in Idaho
liz the title of a bulletin just made
public by the state board of educa'
! ton. The bulletin is in reality spe-
ciaI report of Commissioner Sisson CT
the state board and approved by the
beard for publication.
This bulletin sets forth tie convic-
tions Of the commission and the boart
as to the changes that should be mad
! in the educational system Of the state
at this time % improve educational
opportunities for the whole state with
cooperation as the keynote.
Special emphasis is placed or the
question of economy. 1t IS insisted
that strictest economy be enforced
at all institutions without derarge-
meGt Of the work. ALI funds are ex-
pended on the budget system and the
board expects TO finish the two years
without deficits ard with some sur
plGses.
General Principles.
Under the head OF General Prin-
cirles" the report says:
"The supreme problem educational
schools, and especially the rural
sckocls. This for two reasons; first,
because only in these common schoolsl
are all of the children of the state
touched; but, few relatively, reach
even the high schools, and an exceed
ingly few 50 beyond to attend nor
maj school CT college.
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"The impoverished and neglected
rural school demands the first
attention OF the state"
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"The schools must strive to fit the
children more effectively fer tae life
and occupation that lies before them.
This means a modification of what
do IN school and how they
dc it"
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''Vocatic1aI training and guidance;
we must help each child to find the
calling for w3ich he IS suited, and
then give him training to fit him for
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Training for character. This in
,olves intelligence ard right purpose,
With respect to citizenship, vocation,
and family life. and social
in general"
Big State Schools. 6
Discussing the state Institutions
roper the bulletin speaks of the Uni i
ersity Of Idaho as the head of the /
ntire educational system To show :
hat it represents the entire state it
5 announced that 4S per cent of the I
tudents Of The university are from l;
outh Idaho and of the graduating c
lass this year 56 per cent are from t
le south. t
Speaking of the Lewiston Normal t
be bulletin says it is year by year i.
edueing the duplication between it V
nd the hign schools and concentrate
IS on distinctive normal work.
1t is when the Albion Normal and =,
he Academy of Idaho are reached in
1e bulletin that the real live wires :
re touched. OF the Albion Normal it .
said: N
Academy at Pocatello.
GAIN this, says the bulletin, :
changes completely the relation "
: a state academy to the public =
,hool system. Such an academy u
ow finds itself in compet.tio r
18th the high schools, and covers
ractically the ! same ground as N
lie larger high schools do. c'
"on the basis of average at il
the academy costs b.
bout three times as much per stu s.
ent as the high schools. In other T
crds, the money spent in tie aca- n
smy would educate in our best fl
,hools about three times as manr p;
laho boys and girls as are new be-
lg trained in the academy.
"one-third of the students in the Jc
,ademy belong quite as naturally in
le Pocatello High school. being res y.