it started to play its vital role of training the youth in this part of the land for independent and democratic ways of life and to impress on the people, who were then still under the charm of the Spanish aristocracy, the idea that the labour of the brawn is no less honourable than the labour of the brain – that the man who runs the machine is no less a child of God than the man who sits in the office. In 1965, realizing the need of an institution for higher learning in this part of the country and the great amount of money spent each year to deliver education in the municipality, Representative Floro S. Crisologo presented in Congress a bill which became R.A. No.4449 on June 19, 1965, converting the Ilocos Sur School of Arts and Trades into the University of Northern Philippines.