acting- through the State Hoard for Vocational Education, 

 schools meet the requirements of the Act, and receive state and 

 federal aid. This makes it possible to give to rural children th< 

 kind and quality of education that is adapted to the needs of rural 

 life. 



The Federal Vocational Education Act, through the standards 

 that it sets up, and by means of the supervision that it provides is 

 greatly improving the quality and character of secondary agricul- 

 tural education. 



Certain Preliminary Assumptions Regarding Needs for Voca- 

 tional Education. Modern educational theory postulates that there 

 be tangible relationships between school work and the future ac- 

 tivities of pupils. Vocational education is a means to that end. 

 is recognized as essential to economic production, and as an effec- 

 tive means of insuring against an unskilled and uneducated prole- 

 tariat which menaces our social and political institutions. 



Vocational agricultural education is the birthright of every 

 American boy who wishes to become a farmer. 



