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Discussion

Department of Dairy, Michigan State University, East Lansing

ABSTRACT

All of us, I am sure, recognize that this paper by Dean Accame is an excellent one; we congratulate him. His paper has reminded me of major educational problems, which I know from experience, exist in Colombia. I shall comment on these.

Dean Accame indicates, as his first problem, that ". . . in Latin America, with very few countries as an exception, only small groups of students have been engaged in agricultural studies."

I can testify to the fact that Colombia conforms to this generalization. In 1956, the second year of our assignment in Colombia, results were reported on a survey to ascertain the choices by high school graduates for their desired university majors. The survey involved a questionnaire to each of 3,891 high school graduates; replies from 70% of them were received and tabulated. The following indicates the percentages of the responding students who intended to elect the various majors: medicine, 21%; engineering, 16; law, 10; army, 8; architecture, 7; agriculture, 3; chemistry, 2; economics, 2; veterinary medicine, 1%.

¹ Professor Weaver is a past president of the American Dairy Science Association. He spent several years in Colombia as leader of the Michigan State University ICA contract team working with the Colleges of Agriculture at Medellin and Palmira.