what was eli whitney education?
Yale University Yale College
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 The rigorous curriculum had the girls rise at 5 : 30 a.m. for Bible study . The classes in home economics and industrial skills such as dressmaking , millinery , cooking , and other crafts emphasized a life of self @-@ sufficiency for them as women . Students ' days ended at 9 pm . Soon Bethune added science and business courses , then high school @-@ level courses of math , English , and foreign languages . Bethune was always seeking donations to keep her school operating ; as she traveled , she was fundraising . A donation of $ 62 @,@ 000 by John D. Rockefeller helped , as did her friendship with Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife , beginning in the 1930s , who gave her entree to a progressive network . 

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 During the winter of 1895 @-@ 96 , the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor researched the causes of youth moving from the country to cities to develop the most efficient method of attracting them back to the country . That , and an examination of agricultural needs for a year , resulted in meetings at the homes of Abram S. Hewitt and R. Fulton Cutting and the formation of the New York State Committee for the Promotion of Agriculture . The committee , chaired by Hewitt , included Cutting , Jacob H. Schiff , John G. Carlisle , Mrs. Seth Low , Josephine Shaw Lowell , Walter Law and William E. Dodge . Its board of trustees had five officers ( with Theodore L. Van Norden president ) and seventeen other trustees , including Law , V. Everit Macy and James Speyer . George T. Powell , a " recognized authority on scientific agriculture " according to The New York Times , was consulted ; he later organized the school and became its director . When Walter Law was included the school took shape , since he provided its land and building . In September 1900 , Law and the committee established the School of Practical Agriculture and Horticulture as part of Briarcliff Farms , on an elevated 66 @-@ acre ( 27 ha ) site about midway between the Briarcliff Manor and Pleasantville train stations on Pleasantville Road . Law leased the 66 acres ( which were worth $ 1 @,@ 000 ( $ 28 @,@ 400 in 2015 ) an acre ) for 20 years at the rate of a dollar per year , gave the trustees $ 30 @,@ 000 ( $ 853 @,@ 300 in 2015 ) to build a dormitory and promised them $ 3 @,@ 000 ( $ 85 @,@ 300 in 2015 ) a year for expenses until the school earned a profit . With that and $ 30 @,@ 000 from the trustees , the school opened ; the committee focused the curriculum on horticulture , floriculture , gardening and aviculture . The school 's progress was followed by members of the public interested in agricultural education . 

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 To meet a science requirement , Marian took psychology because , as she later explained , " I thought it the least painful science . " As a straight A student , she was recommended for a highly selective psychology class taught by Skinner ( the first of what Skinner later called " pro @-@ seminars " ) , under whom she studied along with George Collier , W. K. Estes , Norman Guttman , Kenneth MacCorquodale , Paul Everett Meehl , and others bound for later fame in their field . With its emphasis on Skinner 's new operant training techniques , the course inspired Marian to major in psychology with a minor in child psychology and to study operant conditioning . 

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 Meiklejohn 's Experimental College proposal called for two years of compulsory and interdisciplinary study of civilizations : ancient Athens for freshmen , and contemporary America for sophomores . The plan had students and teachers living and working together in the same residence hall with no fixed schedule , no compulsory lessons , and no semester grades , but a common syllabus . Their only grade was to be the single final exam . The college aimed " to inspire students to want to learn " and to teach democracy through " the intrinsic value of learning " over bribery , coercion , and physical violence . 

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 Early courses included classes on English literature , principles of economics , psychology , and applied and experimental electricity , with laboratory experiments . It total there were 19 courses offered during the evenings , late afternoons , and Saturdays . A. Lawrence Lowell believed that it was more important to have high quality courses than to offer a larger number of courses , and that there should be a good deal of variety from year to year . In early years business courses were also offered in conjunction with the Chamber of Commerce , but these were not designed to be part of a degree program . 
