ADULT EDUCATION
By Telegraph—Press Association.
government's interest i expert visits dominion
Auckland, Last Night. Evidence of the Government's interest in advanced forms of adult education v/as given to-day with the arrival by the Mariposa of Professor J. H. Kolb, professor of rural sociology in the University of Wisconsin. He will remain in toe Dominion till the end of August, having come as the result of an offer by the Carnegie Corporation to place an expert in rural economics and research at the service of the recently established Bureau of Social Science Research. "Rural sociology is just good sociology at work in the country," he said. Rural sociology in America had the effecl of making farmers' organisations more effective both in agriculture and in social relationships. It opened up aspects of farming life which would probably never be realised.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1938, Page 7
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138ADULT EDUCATION Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1938, Page 7
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