"Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average citizen should be content with their humble role in life."
Quotes by William Torrey Harris
"Ninety-nine (students) out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual."
William Torrey HarrisWilliam Torrey Harris (September 10, 1835 – November 5, 1909) was an American educator, philosopher, and lexicographer. He worked for nearly a quarter century in St. Louis, Missouri, where he taught s...
