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We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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“The Meaning of a Liberal Education”, Address to the New York City High School Teachers Association (9 January 1909).

 

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