Reflections on Teaching and Learning in Colleges of Agriculture

Theodore Schultz

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1965, vol. 47, issue 1, 17-22

Abstract: The author challenges college and university faculties to take a hard, analytical look at their own job specifications in the light of the ultimate objective of university education. The objective is to help young people acquire a basis for building and rebuilding skills through a 50-year period to meet the demands of a rapidly changing society. The author's reflections lead him to believe that our specification biases result in our giving insufficient attention to the variance among students and the rate of obsolescence of material taught, and further in our placing too low a value on the time of both students and faculty.

Date: 1965
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