"One of the most important lessons Smith teaches us in this book
is that the satisfactions of democratic living are not experienced
and achieved when experts, however well meaning, do things for
people. Nor are they achieved though work that is coerced or
scripted, that offers no real rewards, or is experienced as
duty-bound drudgery. They're achieved through hard work, for sure
gritty, difficult, and at times full of conflict and disagreement.
But work that is also joyful, artistic, productive,
improvisational, and spirited, the expression of a free people
engaged in the pursuit of public and private happiness." from the
new Preface
The People's Colleges, first published in 1949, records the
story of Cornell University's success in the field of extramural
education. From four state colleges of the University the New York
State College of Agriculture, the New York State College of Home
Economics, the New York State Veterinary College, and the New York
State School of Industrial and Labor Relations professors went out
to the people of New York State with the best that the university
had to offer. Ruby Green Smith tells the dramatic story of the
grown of the Extension Service in scope, flexibility, and
specialization through 1948, when it enrolled more than 200,000
students.
This comprehensive history features chapters on specific
programs, including the County Farm Bureaus and 4-H Clubs as well
as those associated with the colleges within Cornell listed above;
key figures in the extension movement, including John Henry
Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock, Liberty Hyde Bailey, and Martha
Van Rensselaer; and programs associated with the Extension Service,
such as publications, scholarship funds, and the honorary
fraternity Epsilon Sigma Phi.
The Fall Creek Books edition of The People's Colleges includes a
new preface by Scott J. Peters, a professor of education at Cornell
and Syracuse University, and a new foreword by Helene R. Dillard,
Director of Cornell Cooperative Extension, which together reflect
on the achievements of both Ruby Green Smith and of her
subjects."
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