Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-30

dren ana adults. which the present
needs demand
TalSirg ii as n whole, DR.. BRYAN said
M outlook IN the public schools of
Idaho M full OF hope. the only dark
spot on the sun of promises, bcing the
Inv sniarjes ,,eid 10 the teachers. He
declared a few months ago teachers
were f,u az hope because OF the up
ward tendency but that 1t had been
more than net BY the skyward flight
OF general prices OF the necessities of
life.
Further dealing with the education
conditions he said:
STRONG PREPARATIONS.
''The definition OF the functions Of
the normal schools and their differ
entiation from the university is a
point on Which Idaho has taken high
grounds. All over the country there is
much confusion, much competition and
much unnecessary discussion on this
point. SocaIled teachers colleges have
multiplied, attempting to. do the dou-
BILE task of collegiate academic train
ing and strictly professional training.
Among the many serious faults OF thai
system, none is nearly SO great as tile
tendency TO strangle the preparation
OF teachers for the elementary schools,
TO decrease the number and efficiency
of the teachers prepared and to put
them into undesirable contrast with
persons preparing for other types of
teaching or for none. Idaho has
marked out plainly the object of the
normal schools, namely, to prepare
teachers by professional courses and
practice work, strictly for the elemcn-
tary schools. Two years are set apart
f,Y 10 "a. NH
ton and practice work, the candidate
for diploma honors in our normal
schools may accept employment and
receive experience along the way. 1t is
not the business of our normal schools
to prepare their teachers for high
school teaching, nor it 1t tire business
of the university to prepare its stu
dents for teaching, in the elementary
grades. Graduates or advanced stu
dents Of the university who desire to
teach IN the elementary schools (and
] hope there may be many who do SOD
should take also the training of our
normal schools in preparation for that
task.
our normal schools have a perma-
nent endowment. the gift Of the ma
ton, of 100000 acres of land with an
approximate valuation of 1000. 900.
They receive already from this source
about $4,000 annually, or $4,000 d
bicnnium.
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION.
Tho idaho technical institute at
PocaSlo. besides its important work
as junior college, one of whose func-
tons Is to prepare elementary teach
ers. is attempting most important
and modern task in the development
of vocational and technical education.
For the purpose its situation is unique
aud the people OF Idaho Will watch
with increasing interest the develop
ment of this intensely and practical
and useful institution
Growing the educational system of
Idaho is her university OF profound
Importance To Massachusetts, to
and to tho world, was the
founding OF Harvard nearly three hum
dred years ago. For two centuries and
more it was small but very bright
light in the wilderness. Not less sig
nificant to Idaho, and we hope .ulti-
mately comparable in its Influence
upon the nation and the world, is the
establishment of her university Min
erva sprang fun Pledged from the head
of JoVe. IT Is not today necessary
that generations and centuries pass i'm
weakness and obscurity before a mod
ern university takes its place with
those of its kind. With faculties filled
with men from the worlds greatest
with libraries laboratories
and shops up to the minute, with
buildings modern and we'll euipped. the
new universities of tho world of which
Idsho Is one, stand shoulder to Shout
der with the old--often out dfstanc-
Ing the old--for 1t ig notorious that
antiue curiosities attach themselves
With unwonted firmness within aca
aemic walls. and do not, like the bar
nacles from ships, fall Off when they
enter fresh water
The university has received from
the nation II land grant worth ten mil
Ion dollars, a grand which is already
Welding an annual income OF $125,0O0.