Caption: Book - Four-Year Report of UI President (1950)
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ftdaj aspect of their programs, vocational affirm with or without ^ v ' vocational preparation, is the lot of all QOn-J litic men. Educati. j s costly, but not a luxury, and it is not for the predoui soul. I n any democracy, a liberal education should frankly include the technical vocational or professional, in so far uch expericncei have been organized, documented and generalized. A solid preparation for the economic life is the good earth of liberalism everywhere. This role of the University in inducting able youth into adult life was recognized by the University committee mentioned earlier: "The task of the University . . . is so to perfect its educational services that it will prepare men and women able to further and to enjoy a community in which they will be more than ever 53 responsible members. T H E THIRD GOAL t * * . 0 : A third goal of the University is to extend and disseminate knowledge. Many other institutions help youth to meet their needs, but few endeavor to discover new truths — to convert the unknown into the known. T h e University faculties ask of nature a neverending series of questions. They explore new relationships, pushing back the frontiers of ignorance and helplessness. Experience has shown there is nothing more practical, in the long run, than the fundamental. This paradox lies at the heart of research endeavors. There will be no improvements in machines, except as they are based upon known principles. There will be no better ways of teaching, except as they are based upon valid theory. Knowledge is power only when it is poss sod. If it remains in the laboratories where it was discovered, or in the mind of the discoverer, it avails little. Dissemination of knowledge enabL the many to gain from the work of the Jew. There are many w oi M • flfe' to dissemination: instructing students in classroom and laboratory. 9 providing a library, establishing extension sen i < cultivating demand I onstration acres, publishing books and pamphlets, producing m tion pictures and radio programs, developing held laboratory loaning films and recordings. These methods arc currently in itAll should be encouraged, and new way hould be devi b] .1 and tested. 10 •
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