Excerpt from Why Go to College?
This booklet emphasizes, quite naturally, the necessity of a broad cultural foundation for any vocational training worthy of the name of education. Young people, sometimes older ones, do not see that two years of Latin may be quite as practical as two years of arithmetic or manual training. In view of this common disregard the emphasis on general culture is therefore inevitable.
But it should not be forgotten that the University of Montana stands for vocational training also. By its system of required subjects it gives its students breadth of training; by its system of major studies it allows him to secure thoroughness of knowledge in one field of work and thus fits him for practical life.
The University of Montana does not believe in subordinating manhood and womanhood to anything. The highest human efficiency comes only through general all round development. Training along some single, narrow line is merely a get-rich scheme in things mental. Such vocational, or technical training can only come successfully after a general cultural course.
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