44 BASES FOR CURRICULUM MAKING 



r(vi)=:709 r(ve) :i=.281 



r(ve)=.654 r(vn) :e=.386 



r(vn)=.700 r(ve) :n=.217 



r(vi) :e=.443 r(vn) :i=.376 



General education again fails to take precedence. Intelli- 

 gence and information factors distinguish the man of largest 

 place in the life of the community as well as the man foremost in 

 financial success. 



Educational Implications. 



This study is based primarily upon the assumption that ob- 

 jective analyses of an industry help to give the best basis for de- 

 vising training plans for the workers in 



Objective analyses that industry. Moreover it attempts to 

 of industries may get back of the mere facts and skills used 

 be used as bases of in working processes and discover, if pos- 

 curricula. sible, the qualities, characteristics, etc., 



that function most directly and satisfac- 

 torily. It is believed that the discovery and statement of these 

 will lay the proper foundation upon which to build curricula and 

 training plans. 



General farming and the agricultural specialties offer fer- 

 tile fields for such objective studies. Conditions and fundamen- 

 tal principles of procedure in these occupations are compara- 

 tively stable. The basic skills have been a long time in develop- 

 ing. They are complex, not to be acquired in a day, and there- 

 fore do not tend to change except with far-reaching and gradual 

 social changes. These skills, together with their allied knowl- 

 edges, usually pass from father to son because of the farm-home- 

 job nature of the occupation and this transmission takes years to 

 effect. Because of this very conservative nature of the industry, 

 the characteristics of the men in it have become more settled and 

 more evident. When once discovered they will stay discovered 

 and delimited, whereas in many other lines the study of today, 

 although giving valuable results for present conditions, may only 

 have permanent value in giving a method of analysis for succeed- 

 ing phases in the development of the industry. The very di- 

 versity, complexity, and stability of the occupation requiring for 



