Autobiography of a Farm Boy (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Waddie, Charles Phillips

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440085161 ISBN 13 : 9781440085161

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

From the farm to the lecture hall, this memoir traces one man's work to build practical agricultural education across America.

Born in New York and raised on a farm, Isaac Phillips Roberts rises to become a leading figure in early American agricultural education. The book blends personal memory with the rise of land‑grant colleges, showing how hands‑on farming, classroom learning, and university leadership shaped a new kind of public instruction.

Set against the broad expansion of agricultural instruction after the land‑grant movement, the memoir follows Roberts’s time at Iowa and Cornell and his belief in teaching the whole farm—from fields and barns to people and communities.

• The author’s boyhood on a Seneca County farm and his path into farming, teaching, and leadership
• The development of practical farming instruction and state-supported colleges
• Real-world teaching, experiments, and the creation of enduring agricultural institutions
• Reflections on the role of educators, institutions, and community impact

Ideal for readers interested in memoirs about education, agriculture, and American innovation.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

For thirty years Professor Roberts led the work in agriculture at Cornell University, These were the eventful and triumphant years of 1873 1903. They began in doubt and with small things, but they were large with faith. He developed one of the best institutions of its kind. Only ten or eleven years had elapsed since the passage of theL and Grant A ct, at which time instruction in agriculture was given a national sanction. A few colleges had made the effort to organize the subject into teaching form and to collect the equipment and develop the farms that were necessary to the new enterprise. Even Michigan, the oldest of the existing North American colleges of agriculture, had been under way only sixteen years. Cornell had given instruction five years. From the first, agriculture had had its appointed place in the institution; but the work was not really established until Professor Roberts came. He came from a farm and with the traditions of farming. He had had experience in the new institution in I owa.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440085161
• ISBN 13: 9781440085161
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 355
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