The Gospel of Work

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Excerpt from The Gospel of Work: Leland Stanford's Views on Higher Education Since all universities are hampered from a lack of funds, it is eminently desirable that all universities should co operate in this expansion of their curricula, and instead of following the old and narrow policy, dictated by petty jealousies, of establishing new departments because they have been established elsewhere, let each university look to develop where other universities have not developed, so that somewhere, here or there, the student will be able to find the thing he needs for his highest development. With ample opportunities for studying worthy subjects the student should be able to find in the university that thing which will best enable him to find his sphere Of great est usefulness in the world, that thing which awakens his enthusiasm, and it is not of great importance what the thing is, it is the awakening that is of supreme importance thatr is the first great step towards a sound education. One student will gain inspiration from the great epics of Homer, Dante, or Milton, another will be thrilled and incited to higher effort by reading the earth's history in the earth's crust a third will have his soul stirred and be able to detect nature's immutable laws by the study of the venation in the wings of insects. Any work which is thus capable of inspiring men to new and nobler effort can ill be spared from our educational system. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.