The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-08-01
EDUCATIONAL.
(BY @. W. MEISNEST.)

lHo 'ocCroturl VI agriculture Has
said: "The Department of Agriculture
is organizing just now to take farm
demonstration work into the northern
states Two classes Of men are requir-
ed for this work: First, in each coun-
| ty first rate farmer who has been a
success on his farm and who under
stands practically, without much theory
except what he may have incidentally
picked up, how to handle the soil, the
plant, and the animal; Second, over
large districts and states different
class OF men are wanted, who have an
agricultural college training combined
| with its application to practice in the
field AS we read the daily papers and
| see the reports of the thousands of
young men who are graduated in law
throughout the country the reflection
naturally comes, what pity that the
great demand Of the farm for intelli-
gent men is not being more considered
by our educational institutions. There
is not law work for more than a small
per cent of these young men. No doubt
the education and mental training they
have had will make them brighter
men, but there are no jobs waiting for
them, that is for more than very
small percentage of them, while the
fields are crying aloud for trained men.
Housekeepers are complaining of the
cost of living. 1t would seem to be
wise for our educators in their national
meetings to consider these problems.
1t might be wise to consider about how
many young lawyers will be needed in
the next year to take the place of the
older men who are dropping out. That
could be very easily determined. Then
if the attention of this class of students
were called to the demand of the in
dustries for educated men, different
direction might be given to many young
men who seem to be drawing their
bows at a venture
"This applies to more than the law
yer. There are no doubt far more
young physicians turned out from the
educational institutions of the country
than there are patients for. Wrong
direction has been giSen TO the educa-
tion of many young men, and yet there
is nothing more difficult to change than
the old systems of education.
"ln his sixth annual report (l9ll) as
President of the Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching, DR..
Henry S. Pritchett says:
According to the census tables there
were in the United States in 1900,
$4,000 physicians and surgeons. In
bulletin on medical education issued by
the Foundation in 1910, it was calcu-
lated after careful investigation that
1000 graduates annually from the med
ical schools would furnish an ample
supply OF new physicians to take the
places left vacant by death and other
causes, and to keep pace with the
growth OF population. Assuming, and
it is evidently an extravagant assump-
ton, that the proportion Of lawyers to
the population should be as large as
the proportion of physicians; /, 100 gra-
duates annually from the law schools
would be sufficient to maintain even
the present crowded stage of the legal
profession. AS matter of fact, in
June, 1910, the number Of students
graduated by the law schools number
ed 4 ,lS3; and this takes no account OF
the large percentage of lawyers admit
ted to the bar without having received
a law school diploma II we place the
per capita need of lawyer at the
same figure as the need Of physician,
and disregard all who enter the pro-
fession without completing successful
ly a law school course, it is evident
that the output OF the law schools of
the present day is far in excess of any
necessary demand
SIT is certain that the demand for
lawyers and physicians is much more
than met by the professional schools
today. 1t is equally certain that the
demand for educated farmers Is strik-
ingly neglected"