To the extent that it is subsidized by the Federal Government under the Smith-
Hughes Act Vocational
Training must be vocational training for the common wage earning
employments.
It may be given to boys and girls who,
1. having selected a vocation, desire preparation for entering it;
2. already taken up a wage earning employment, seek greater efficiency in that
employment,
or the wage earners established in their trade or occupation, who wish through
increase in their efficiency and wage earning capacity to advance to positions of
responsibility
THE PRESIDENT’S ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON
EDUCATION IN ITS REPORT PUBLISHED IN 1938,
DEFINED VOC. ED AS FOLLOWS
Voc. Ed. is very inclusive term and viewed broadly, may cover all
those experiences whereby an individual learns to carry on
successfully any useful occupation. These experiences may be
organized and institutionalized or unorganized and more or less
haphazard. In a narrower sense, Voc. Ed. may be defined as a series
of controlled and organized experiences arranged to prepare a
person for socially useful employment
THE SOUTHERN STATES WORK CONFERENCE, IN
1945,
FORMULATED THE FOLLOWING DEFINITION FOR
VOC. ED.