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 week shall be devoted to instruction. Such instruction shall include: two hours a week instruction in English, in citizenship, business practice, physiology, hygiene, and the use of safety devices."

The boy who is to become a bricklayer, while he is in apprenticeship will be taught not only the mere trade but also some essentials which will prepare him for life and a place in the civic body, giving him the opportunity to broaden his outlook that later he may be able to pass from the ranks of manual skill to the ranks of administrative ability. He will be taught not only bricklaying but architecture, buying and correlated subjects. And so in every industry the same general requirements, subject to approval by the state board of industrial education, must be met.

A local board of industrial education is also provided and a liberal state aid arrangement is added, the whole machinery constituting the most complete plan of industrial education, compulsory in most of its features, which has ever been attempted by any American state.

That the commission upon the plans for the extension of industrial and agricultural training, appointed by the legislature of 1909 to report in 1911, had a very broad outlook, that it was looking for the improvement of manhood, of womanhood, and of the state, is shown by the following quotation from its report. It is given here because it is full of the spirit of this state and of the movement herein described.