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8 VIEWS OF THE INTERIOR
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0 HISTORY OF TI1E STATE MANUAL TRAINING NORMAL SCHOOL THIS INSTITUTION took a step forward in the educational field, insisting on breaking away from the old traditional course of study, and con- tending that there should be introduced into the public school system, for both boys and girls, suitable industrial work, so that we might have trained hands directed by a trained brain. “Gradually, but slowly, men have learned by experience that schooling, if it be of a suitable kind, does not necessarily educate away from industry, and further, that the kind of education which fits for industry, not only returns educated men to industrial life but also and in- evitably develope the industries to a level that is unattainable except through education.” In order to accomplish this, we must have teachers who are thoroughly educated and trained along industrial lines. This Institution was founded for that purpose. Because of its unique position in the educational field, its students have been obliged to overcome the prejudices existing against “The new education”; they have been missionaries in the educational field, and have had the inspiration of martyrs. On account of this, the alumni and the students have caught the spirit and imbibed the ideals of the Institution, which probably has drawn them closer together than is the case of the alumni of most schools. We are proud of the record of our alumni. They are teaching and directing industrial work in the public schools in all parts of the country. They are preaching the gospel, “Education for Efficiency.” The alumni who return now find many changes in the State Manual Train- ing Normal. The building in which the school opened was an old one, once occupied by the High School, and which was loaned by the city until a more suitable habita- tion could be secured. It must be admitted that this was not a very imposing structure, but when the apparatus for Manual Training was installed it served the purpose very nicely until the completion of the new building. The Normal now has an enrollment of about ten hundred and seventy-five with a faculty of thirty. Although young, we point with pride to the history of our school which consists not so much in a long list of achievements, though she can boast her share, as to the army of earnest, young men and women she is sending out, who after all, are the real history makers. We who love the old S. M. T. N., who glory in the results which she has accommplished, are yet looking forward to greater things, are always saying, “Build thee more stately mansions.”
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