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Collection: Documents - Catalog Card
| EXCERPT: WHEN a man of science announces that seventy millions of Americans have "little or no brains" and that "education can add nothing to their intelligence," it is perhaps time to see whether it is possible to say a word in defense of education. For if seventy millions are predestined and irretrievable fools, this democracy is probably a predestined and irretrievable failure.... |
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| TITLE: |
A Defense Of Education |
| CREATOR: |
Walter Lippmann (author) |
| DATE: |
May 1923 |
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Article |
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Magazine |
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| PUBLICATION: |
The Century Magazine |
| SOURCE: |
Available at selected libraries |
| LOCATION: |
vol.106, no.1, pp.95-103 |
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| KEYWORDS: |
African-American, Children, Cognitive Disability, Demographics, Economics, Education, Eugenics, Government, Intelligence, Intelligence Tests, Military, Prejudice, Psychology, Statistics, Walter Lippmann, War, WWI |
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