Intellect Volume 10 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...any one of the courses of study or educational endeavor as practised by the college of agriculture is better than any other. The attempt, at least, is to make each the best for the persons for whom it is intended. If the possible forms of education are as numerous as the individuals to be taught, how then shall the methods to be employed be determined? Largely by the pressure of demand and the relative cost of meeting the demand. Obviously, in a democracy, the plan must be to give efficient instruction to the largest number of persons consistent with the resources available. For example, boys' club work is not a better form of instruction than graduate work, but it is my belief that the money expended by the college of agriculture on boys' clubs brings greater pedagogical and vocational results than any other equal expenditure of money by the college. It is, of course, hazardous to undertake to place a money value upon education. Who can put a money value on the education of a Lincoln, a Huxley or a Wilson? When Stanford educated Hoover, it paid for the education of all its students for a hundred years. Nevertheless, I venture to say that if the college of agriculture obtains as much money for all the money it expends as that expended on boys' clubs, it would, judged by results, be ten times as efficient as it is at present. "What I have said of the College of Agriculture of the University of California applies in greater or less degree to all the agricultural colleges in the United States. How far this same complexity of endeavor will obtain in secondary schools is one of the questions raised by the past experiences of agricultural colleges. It is one to which those charged with the responsibility can well give special attention. Here the question of ...