Show FOR vocational TRAINING HERE yesterday mr aln francis kirkham state director tor for vocational education and supt bupt J preston creer or of nebo school district were in this city in conference with supt bupt skidmore relative to the introducing of vocational education into the schools of box elder county the gentlemen visited the high school and mr kirkham stated to a news representative that lie he was mightily impressed with inith saw he classed the school as one of oe the very best and biggest high schools in the state of tan taa au at in many ways it excelled any anything ting tie lie has yet seen in his visits among the high schools of the state the purpose of vocational education mr air Kirli kirkham hain declared Is to permit students to devote one half their time in theoretical vork and one halt half in practical work the two branches brall clies of vocational work to lo be ofle ofie red are agriculture and domestic science and the adoption of this work Is optional with the board of education of the various school districts the movement is nationwide in its character and fi was aa provided for by the passage of the smith bill by congress some same time ago and the last legislature of the state ot of utah ratified the bill in that measure it is provided that the government will ap prop certain funds to each state that takes up this work and the states in turn divide those funds among the school districts which incorporate vo rational cat ional education in their cur currick lum the plan is a very simple one it means that a young lady may te be advised that her home activities after school or on saturday will be placed to her credit or she may even be dispatched dispatch eu to do home work during e week in like manner the boys will get credit crecli tor for plowing a field planting a crop of grain milking the cows feeding the animals or doing any other kind of farm arm work the whole scheme is to get boys and girls to do more practical work and less theoretical in order that their education may be more equally balanced when they have completed their studies the additional purpose is to dignity dignify the profession of homemaking on the part of the girls and the boys for a knowledge of domestic science Is indispensable to a girl who assumes the management of a home while a knowledge of the science of agriculture will aid every young man mail to be a better professional man or farmer it if he chooses to stick to the farm and the present needs of the country demand that agriculture bo be stimulated and made so attractive that young men will consider farming in the same light as they regard the profession of law medicine or engineering gi in order to hecei receive ve part pan of the government appropriation app a school dis brict must et i requirements and ud it was for the tha purpose of looking over the field that kirkham and creer were here yesterday supt bupt skidmore is very favorably impressed vilh the scheme and speaks optimistically relative to its adoption by the box elder county board of education |