I can think of many amusing parallels. For example, "the Borough of ... announces: Miss Jones, the splendid principal of our gramm...ar school, has been offered the position of cook and housekeeper by the family next door, and so we feel obliged to dismiss her and make room for one of the young girls just graduated from training college. Miss Jones may not care to be a cook but since she has that privilege we don't think it right for her to continue to teach, valuable as her services are to the community." Or, "the Educational Committee of ... Borough has adopted a rule to employ no more men teachers who have vegetable gardens, and to notify those men now in its employ who possess vegetable gardens or are contemplating acquiring one that they will be dismissed. We are actuated by the following reasons: (1) The place of a man with a vegetable garden is at home working in his garden. (2) We feel, as a general rule, that a man with a vegetable garden will, to some extent, suffer in his efficiency as a teacher. We have no evidence of this; in fact the vegetable gardeners whom we are about to dismiss are among our best teachers, but nevertheless, we feel that as a general policy our rule is sound from an educational standpoint. (3) A man with a garden will not starve. Therefore, it is unfair to continue paying him a salary as a teacher while men who have no vegetable gardens are waiting for posts [ellipses in original].LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their voc...ational education often has to be learned all over again after they leave school and college. On the other hand, they have open quick minds and if their education has little sharp positive value, it has not the stultifying effects of a more rigid training.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training in... give and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spirit ... the consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If any proof were needed of the progress of the cause for which I have worked, it is here tonight. The presence on the stage of th...ese college women, and in the audience of all those college girls who will some day be the nation's greatest strength, will tell their own story to the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only a fully trained Jedi knight with the Force as his ally will conquer Vader and his emperor. If you end your training now--if y...ou choose the quick and easy path, as Vader did--you will become an agent of evil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not think that a Physician should be admitted into the College till he could bring proofs of his having cured, in his own per...son, at least four incurable distempers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here was a place where nothing was crystallized. There were no traditions, no customs, no college songs .... There were no rules a...nd regulations. All would have to be thought of, planned, built up, created--what a magnificent opportunity!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I never went near the Wellesley College chapel in my four years there, but I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity th...at school stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the face of boredom and stupidity. Tolerance, in the worst sense of the word.... How marvelous it would have been to go to a women's college that encouraged impoliteness, that rewarded aggression, that encouraged argument.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »