How the Land-Grant Colleges Are Preparing Special Teachers of Agriculture (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from How the Land-Grant Colleges Are Preparing Special Teachers of Agriculture During the recent past there has developed an increased general interest in agriculture. In the early years of the period of most marked increase in this interest a demand arose for the teaching of agriculture in the elementary and secondary schools. This was quickly followed by a demand that agriculture be made a department of instruction in the secondary schools, and that the teacher of this subject be specially trained for the distinct duty of teaching agriculture. Meanwhile the popularity of agricultural extension work had been developed. It was soon seen that this new type of teacher must be equipped to teach agriculture as a specialty, to adapt this teaching to a full four-year course in the secondary school, and also to teach in the rural school and in the elementary grades of the town or city school, and, in addition, to perform the functions of an extension worker for that portion of the community not in attendance upon school. The need of a teacher so specifically and yet so broadly trained immediately raised the question of the need of a suitable institution in which to train him. The adaptability of the normal school to the giving of an elementary knowledge of agriculture to those teachers whose major work is the teaching of other subjects has been shown (National Education Association Proceedings, 1913, pp. 516-21), but the training of a specialist in agriculture who is to teach that subject almost exclusively requires a different type of institution. A people who had become accustomed to depending upon the land-grant colleges for their needs regarding agriculture naturally looked to those institutions for this new type of teacher. The land-grant colleges, with their innumerable and vital points of public contact and with a well-developed policy, not only of sensing the public wishes, but of responding to them, evolved steadily, but quite rapidly, facilities for training these special teachers of agriculture. To learn how these institutions as a class are performing this function is the purpose of this study. Scope This study is limited to the land-grant colleges, frequently called "agricultural and mechanical colleges" or "colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts, " established by the Federal Land Grant of 1862 and subsequent statutes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.