The human problems. 



We must also study the people themselves and the affairs 

 whereby they live. These are economic and social questions, 

 concerned with the whole problem of how the people organize 

 their lives and their business. On the economics side are the 

 great questions of taxation, distribution of products, market- 

 ing, business organization, and the like. The whole relation 

 of the man and woman to the community in respect to social 

 intercourse, schools, churches, societies, the broad influence of 

 telephones and roads and machinery on rural life, the social 

 results of immigration, the scheme of rural government, the 

 policies of cooperation in a thousand ways, and, in short, the 

 structure of rural society, constitute a special field of inquiry. 

 For cities many of these questions have been studied with care, 

 and measures of relief have been set on foot when they were 

 found to be needed; but in the country these great human 

 problems are practically untouched. There is as much need 

 of an agricultural application of economic and social questions 

 as there is need of an agricultural application of chemistry; 

 in fact, there is greater need of it, for at the bottom all civiliza- 

 tion is but a complex of these human questions. This College 

 of Agriculture has a modest beginning in this essential field, 

 but the work is wholly inadequate to the needs of the State. 



Training teachers. 



The public schools must teach persons how to live. This 

 will call for a complete change in their methods and their point 

 of view. New teachers must be trained. We can not expect 

 any very great progress by merely adding new work to old 



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