On Jan 1, 2013, at 7:01 PM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote:

> - The object of education is not merely to draw out the powers of the
> individual mind: it is rather its right object to draw all minds to a
> proper adjustment to the physical and social world in which they are to
> have their life and their development: to enlighten, strengthen and make
> fit. (Woodrow Wilson)

I don't think it was a good idea to quote a segregationist president of
Princeton, who discouraged black students from even applying for admission, on
the merits of education "to draw all minds ... to enlighten, strengthen and
make [the social world] fit." Plunder a quote from someone else for your next
response.



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Michael Brady

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