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our ofRces is and must be administrative. A bureau chief who should 

 neglect his main Avork for the sake of a subsidiary or incidental one 

 would be forfeiting his trust. If, under these circumstances, Con- 

 gress wishes the bureaus to undertake educational work on a large 

 scale, it ought to make a specific appropriation for the purpose. 

 But it does not seem likely that this polic}^ will be adopted.'' 



Coming to the educational difficulty, Dr. Hadley states frankly 

 that " even if we had room enough and appropriations enough, it is 

 doubtful Avhether the Government bureaus, regarded from the purely 

 educational standpoint, furnish as advantageous a training place as 

 many people suppose." He holds that " to nine men out of ten a good 

 school is a better training place in the theory of a man's profession 

 than any ordinary office or bureau."' He shows that we have passed 

 beyond the stage of the student assistant, the stage in which the man 

 who wished to be a lawyer went into a lawj^er's office or the pros- 

 pective engineer began by carrying chain for an engineer. 



"A teacher Avho makes it his business to educate can do this side of 

 the work more effectively than a practitioner, with whom the train- 

 ing of his assistants is and can be only an incidental matter. It is 

 simply an instance of the advantages of division of labor. It is 

 better to have a trained teacher do the teaching in places arranged 

 for teaching, and a trained administrator do the business in the 

 places arranged for business, than to try to mix the two things up. 

 While this is not an absolutely universal rule, it holds true in the 

 vast majority of cases." 



Those who are familiar with the work of the Government will 

 agree in general with Dr. Hadley 's findings. The pressure upon 

 the administrative officers for results is heavy, and in most depart- 

 ments the problems have grown too complex to make it possible to 

 use untrained men to advantage. The experience which has been had 

 in attempting to combine educational work with the administrative 

 functions of the Government, without making special provision for 

 it by way of relief from certain service or the provision of additional 

 assistance, has not been encouraging. The difficulties of this dual 

 service have been expressed in another way in the cases of men in the 

 Government service who have given regular instruction at local educa- 

 tional institutions. In such instances it has been found desirable, in 

 the interest of the Government's business, to place some limitations on 

 this outside service. 



