RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

3,24 THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
training of the personnel to be used elsewhereis
essential for the success of the movement.
The type of project in which the Foundation
is collaborating is designed to provide college
graduates with apprenticeship training in the
various rural activities already established. The
funds are
also used to supplement research
activities for the development of new methods.
The apprenticeship training now being given
may
be considered partially as an emergency
measure to serve until the development of more
systematized and fundamental training can be
adequately worked out with
institutions of
higher education.
Cooperation in this activity did not begin
until July 1, 1935, and it is premature to report
results in terms of significant achievement. The
essential trends may be summarized as follows:
the Mass Education Movement has established
a special training commission; thirty-seven local
fellowships in education, health, local government,
agriculture, and economics have been supported
through Foundation funds; there has been
marked progress in the development of technical
methods of county-wide application. Ting Hsien
has been the central experimental laboratory
and the headquarters of the training program. A
major extension field is to be established in
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