 He emphasized the need to develop vocational training that would lead to good jobs.Collier's thought he could not only preserve Indian culture but hold it up as a model for the larger society.Historian T. H. Watkins comments that this was "rather a lot to ask of a people struggling merely to live on the fringe of civilization that had overwhelmed them; it was even more to ask acceptance of such notions from a Congress that had demonstrated little faith in the belief that white civilization had anything much to learn from the Indians."