Speech By Commissioner Of Education Earl McGrath, Do We Need a New Type Of Advanced Education?
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OCR Page 1 of 16The purpases and the progreme of greduate education in the United
States need clarification. Our failure to recoghise the taro stremms of
development that have contributed to the present forms of graduate
instruction in this country accounts for auch of the present confusion
about the ways in which we should proceed to astisfy the demends for new
types of graduate instruction.
It will be recalled that in the early days of higher education in
the United States colleges and universities vere primarily concerned with
undergraduate teaching. The curriculum contained only a fow courses in
the classical languages, history, philesophy, mathomatics, and religion.
All students studied the same subjects. Regardless of the fact that
of the graduates of early Harvard, and other institutions, becasio
ministers of the gospel, the course of study was not peofessional in
any modern sense. The purpose of college instruction was primarly to
prepare young men for intellectual and moral leadership in the ordinary
activities of life, not for the activities peculiar to any of the
professions nor for a life of scholarly activity in the library or
laboratory. A considerable amount of scholarly work was of course done
before the rise of the great modern universities, but much of it was
carried on outside of institutions of higher education.
During the nineteenth century, however, the orientation of higher
education shifted in the United States. The modern complex institution
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Speech prepared by Earl J. MoGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education, to
be delivered at the ,meeting of the Southern Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools at Houston, Texma, November 30, 1949.
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