Statement By Commissioner Of Education Earl McGrath, Graduate Work For College Teachers
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OCR Page 1 of 17GRADUATE WORK FOR COLLEGE TEACHERS
by
Earl James McGrath*
U. S. Commissioner of Education
Federal Security Agency
The purposes and the programs of graduate education in the United
States need clarification. Our failure to recognize the two streams of
development that have contributed to the present forms of graduate
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instruction in this country accounts for much of the present confusion
about the ways in which we should proceed to satisfy the demands for now
types of graduate instruction.
It will be recalled that in the early days of higher education in
the United States colleges and univorsities were primarily concerned with
undergraduate teaching. The curriculum contained only a few courses in
the classical languages, history, philosophy, mathematics, and religion.
All students studied the Regardless of the fact that many
of the graduates of early Harvard, and other institutions, became
ministers of the gospel, the course of study was not professional 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 auch of it was
carried on outside of institutions of higher education.
Presented by Dr. Fred J. Kelly at the Conference on the Preparation of
College Teachers, Chicago, Illinois, December 8, 1949
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