Repository: UIHistories Project: Booklet - What is Involved in a Vocational Education (Davenport) (1915) [PAGE 2]

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FOREWORD In order thai his point of view may be clearly known, and his intense belief in vocational education o\' the most practical kind ^tahlished in advance, the author craves a word of introduction to thai he writes from the standpoint of a farmer and a teacher interested above all else in an improved agriculture and an enriched country life. There is no kind of farm work in forest, field, or ditch that h < has not done: not once but many times, day after day, and rear after year, and with all kinds of people; not only as a boy but for ten years as a man after graduation from college. He therefore feelthai he knows the point of view of the man who works with his hands and something of his need for training, both mentally and manually. It is now forty years since his experience in vocational education began in the oldest agricultural college in America—an institution having no connection with any other form of education. After ten years of practical farming, he was called to teach in his Alma Mater, rid for the last twenty years he has been at the head of an agricultural college and experiment station organized as integral parts of ne of the larger state universities. The following treatment of the general subject of vocational education is therefore the result of convictions that have formed them elves during these many years of experience with both extremes o\ the problem as applied to agriculture, with such observations in collateral fields as occasion has made possible.