The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-08-12

| that intellectual training that our in.
dustrial, social and commercial life
demands.
Can Study at Home
We believe that there is a solution
for this problem in sight, and in sug-
costing It we do not wish to be un.
derstood as offering substitute for
residence work in the college or Of
relieving the farmer of the respons E
bility of sending his children to CO.
lege whenever possible. We do not
agree with many educators, who say
that the only education worth while
is to be had in residence at some
university or college, and are more
and more convinced that a college
must be taken to the people; to ev.
cry fireside, to every home. Much can
be done and is being done in a large
number Of cases. Fifteen or twenty
Of our leading states and private uni
vers ties, including the University of
California and the University of Wis
consin, are giving correspondence
study courses and are finding the
work eminently successful.
Advantages Of Correspondence
Work
Prof. w. II. Lightly, Secretary Of
the Correspondence Study Depart.
ment of the University of Wisconsin
says:
The possibility of teaching by
correspondence has already been de-
monstrated by practical experiment.
While such instruct on lacks some OF
the advantages which resident study
affords, 1t has compensating advan-
tages Of its own. In correspondence
instruction the teaching Is personal
and Individual. Every student studies
and retites the whole lesson, comes
in contact with the teacher as an in
dividuA and not as member OF a
large Class. The instruction Is, there
fore, Very thorough. Correspondence
study, furthermore, employs the spare
time of the student, and gives HIM
an interest besides his daily work. 1t
can be done at home and thereby
brings into the home a new influence
and charm. Correspondence work,
therefore, throws man on his own
resources and makes him self-reliaht
and self.determining.
For Those Who Cannot Leave
Home
The Utah Agricultural College, al
ready in the front of educational pro
gress, has seen the signs of the
times and has prepared itself to meet
the situation by organizing Cores
pondence Study Department, as a de-
partment of the Extension Div sion,
ranking 1t with other departments in
the institution. This department is
prepared to serve all, who through
force of circumstance, are unable TO
leave home. 1t aims to make this in
struction of such a charater that all
mature persons may be enrolled, as
no entrance examinations Will be re-
quired of the applicants, and instruc.
ton will be given by members Of the
regular College faculty.
Good For Teachers
For the teacher who wishes to Sc
cure a state diploma, or having that,
desires to specialize in h favorite
study, they are especially adapted.
For the business or the professional
man they offer an opportunity to keep
in touch with modern progress. For
he workman in the shops or the fac.
tories they offer means Of self i'm
provement and consequent advance.
ment. For the farmer they offer in
struction that will make his work
more pleasant and profitable.
The courses offered by the depart
ment include work in all phases OF
agricSIture, commerce. home econom-
les, mechanic arts. English, mathe'
mates, general science, ana in fact
subjects from all of the department.
of the institution.
Farmers think 1t over. II you can
not go to College next year, let the
College come to you by way OF Cor.
respondence Studies"