Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-11-18
diaries as Idaho.

darles as ldaho.
1t remains now for the state,
through its board of education and the
commissioner to authorize these state
schools of higher education to offer
work of such character and extent as
to most nearly approximate this ideal
of equal educational opportunity for
all.
With this ideal as working n.y.
pothesis, the state board has author
lied the Technical institute to or
ganize it's work along the following
lines: -
To quote from the oIllcial report
adopted by the board:
''It is proposed, in accordance with
the law, that the organization of the
school be directed toward two years
of college work and snch courses below
college grade as the educational system
of the state renders desirable. 49,.
(2.) The courses of study of sec
ondary school grade to include, as far
as practicable, subject matter not of
fened by the average high school Of
the state, in the field Of technical and
vocational education. re- = a94 n.
3D. The college courses for students
who plan to continue school beyond
the second college year to correspond,
as far as. possible, to the first two
years work of the University of Idaho.
a. College courses for students
who expect to leave school at the close
of the second year to be organized on
the basis of technical and vocational
finishing courses.
In accordance with this plan, courses
of study have been organized to meet
the needs of three classes of students:
a. High school graduates who
plan to pursue four year college
course leading to the bachelor IS de-
gree in science, agriculture, engineer
ing or home economics, may secure the
first two years of these courses so that
the work for a degree may be com
pleted at the University of Idaho is not
more than two years.
(2.) High school graduates who do
not plan to devote more than one or
two additional years to school work
may secure special technical or voca-
tional training supplemented by literary
and scientific subjects in preparation
for vocations, including farming, indus
trial arts pursuits, business clerical and
stenographic pursuits, teaching, and
home making.
(3.) Young men and women who
have completed the first two years
work of high school, or who have had
no high school advantages, but have
reached the age of sixteen years or
over will find special courses in the
vocational school adapted to their
needs.
In addition to this, the institute ex-
poets to offer in connection with the
extension department of the university
short courses and extension work for
those engaged in agricultural and other
industrial occupations.
1t is also planned to organize eve
ming coursese of study covering such
vocational and technical fields of work
as the demand may seem to justify.
This, briefly stated, is the field OF
the school, as we see it, that lies in
the present and the immediate future
If the distant future, the educational
demands of the state require any modi
fication or addition to this plan, they
can be cared for when that time
arrives.
The Technical Institute proposes to
be ready to go into the work of educa,
ton and help wherever it may be OF
service and wherever it is the best OF
most efficient instrument to do this
work.
The school does not want to do the
work that some other educational in
stitution is now doing or that some
other institution may be either by rea
son or location, equipment, or special
charter, better fitted to do
Our motto is cooperation and mutual
effort in the direction of giving Idaho
the best public educational system OF
any state in the union.
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