Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-05
BUYING EDUCATION DIRT CHEAP.

ton which will relieve the state of the
expense of millions invested in stone
buildings and grounds and also of the
responsibility and expense of admins
tration. He discusses the need of train
ing teachers to teach agriculture in the
village and township high schools. He
admits that the state normal school
should install department of agricul-
tursl instruction and that the college
at .Anles should be encouraged but he
points to the very patent fact that
Ames and Cedar Falls combined can
not begin to supply the teachers need
ed for elementary teaching in agricul-
ture any more than is the state nor
NAL school now able to supply the
school teachers we need.
at this point Senator Newberry
turns to the plan which the state now
follows in supplying at state expense
military instructors for certain ac-
credited colleges 1t works well and
costs q trifling sum. Senator NeWberry
PROPOSES that the state furnish IN
structors in agriculture for q, number
of the first class denominational col
leges of the state and thus enable
then, to train the teachers needed FOR
agricultural courses in high schools.
There are a dozen such colleges Well
distributed over the state already
equipped with buildings and grounds
and administrative forces. 1t would not
require much more than $4,000 per an
mum for each to teach agriculture and
$4,000 per year thus spent would
educate ten times the number Of teach
ers that could be educated in a state
agricultural normal school at the same
cost.
In fact Senator Newberry has sug-
gested plan which might well be
elaborated We are reading just now
Of the deep study Messrs. Rockefeller
and Carnegie have given to the science
Of philanthropy ard we have seen each
evolve Independently the plan of CIV
ing to those VINO value the gift sui
ficiently to cooperate. Thus the Car
negie libraries go only to those COM
munities which will tax themselves for
support of the library and gifts from
the Rockefeller board SO only to those
colleges which can demonstrate their
value and worthiness by raising en-
dow,nents at home. These two men are
two Of the great men of history They
have employed the assistance of other
great minds and their plan is worth
emulating. Let the state accept Its
wisdom and proceed to establish agri-
cultural courses in accredited colleges
which will do something for the work
as the price of state aid and Jet the
state then establish normal instruction
in these same colleges with some rea-
sonable requirement as to local CO.
operation
1t has long been an injustice to our
privately endowed colleges to over
wlelm them with the unequal competl-
ton Of the state college. The small col
leges gave education when the state
neglected to do SO and what they gave
was given at the price Of heroic sacri-
fee, such sacrifice as present day gem
erations can not understand until they
study intimately the history of pioneer
college building. Since the state began
building universities the investments
made by these pioneers have been OPP
pressed by the affluence of an unequal
competitor. In all justice and fairness
1T is time the state relieved the pres
sure on these denominational colleges
and incidentally by doing so the state
can get $40 worth Of education for ey-
cry dollar it expends in cooperative
instruction.