United States Federal Board for Vocational Education: Difference between revisions

Introduced by Vermont Senator [[Justin Smith Morrill|Justin Morrill]] and signed by President [[Abraham Lincoln]].,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=33|title=Our Documents - Morrill Act (1862)|website=www.ourdocuments.gov|access-date=2019-04-25}}</ref> the [[Morrill Act]] (12 Stat. L., 305) is considered to be the first federal attempt at vocational education. It dedicated land obtained by the [[Northwest Ordinance of 1787]] to be used for colleges that taught mechanics and agriculture.<ref name=":0" /> Its enactment kick-started a plethora of federal vocational education efforts. University of Washington professor, William Stull Holt{{citation needed|date=November 2019}}, noted in his 1992 book ''Federal Board for Vocational Education: Its History, Activities, and Organization'' that "there was not a session in Congress from 1910 on when one or more bills [weren't] touching on some phase of vocational education"<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/federalboardfor01holtgoog|title=The Federal board for vocational education: its history, activities and ...|last=William Stull Holt|publisher=D. Appleton and company, 1922|others=University of California|language=en}}</ref>