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How to Develop a Liberal Studies Program in Agricultural Education

Department of Social Studies, North Carolina State College, Raleigh

ABSTRACT

Our part in this discussion will be to consider some of the practical problems that must be solved if the goals and objectives that Dean Shirley has outlined are to be achieved without seriously weakening the technical and scientific aspects of agricultural education. Everyone would agree that if there were money enough and time enough, we would like to see all young people, and especially the ablest among them, push as far as their capacities would permit them in every field of human knowledge, including the humanities and social sciences. This might take more than one lifetime, but, if we didn't have to worry about that, we might all agree that it would be a good thing.

The simple truth is that we don't have that amount of time; economic forces compel early and thorough specialization; and the practical question in the real world is whether anything significant can be done to broaden the outlook of technical students in a four-year undergraduate program, while leaving adequate room for the scientific, agricultural, and business training that is so necessary.