§ 4302. Object of institution. The primary object of the school shall
be, to furnish to the blind children of the state the best known
facilities for acquiring a thorough education, and to train them in some
useful profession or manual art, by means of which they may be enabled
to contribute to their own support after leaving the school; but it may
likewise, through its industrial department, provide such of them with
appropriate employment and boarding accommodations as find themselves
unable, after completing their course of instruction and training, to
procure these elsewhere for themselves. It shall, however, be in no
sense an asylum for those who are helpless from age, infirmity or
otherwise, or a hospital for the treatment of blindness.