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The Animal Husbandry Curriculum—its Development and Objectives¹

University of California, Davis

Abstract

Teaching animal husbandry is a challenge to the intellect, requiring mental capacity and critical judgment from those of us engaged in it. We accept such a responsibility and dedicate ourselves to the task.

Men differ in their concepts of university teaching. Benjamin Ide Wheeler once said, "A man who thinks he can govern his life by pure science is likely to be very wearisome to his neighbors and cumbersome to himself. The greatest education is the giving of life. Life is begotten of life, passes not from book to subject, but from the life of the Master to the life of the pupil." Herbert Spencer, however, stated, "A knowledge of the sciences is always most useful in life and therefore most worth-while. Science opens up realms of poetry where to the unscientific all is blank." Robert A. Millikan said recently, "The job of civilized man is not to suppress the growth of knowledge, but rather to express his intelligence, his own growth of knowledge, to stop the depredations of the Dillingers and the Hitlers by eliminating them is necessary or by other means if he can find such, and at the same time to win as large a fraction of mankind as possible to the free choice of the good way instead of the evil way."

¹ From a talk presented at the meetings of the American Society of Animal Production held in Chicago, November 24th and 25th, 1949.