Carolina QuotesThere is no difficulty in securing enough agreement for action on the point that education should serve the needs of the people. But all hinges on the interpretation of needs; if the primary need of man is to perfect his spiritual being … then education of the mind and the passions will take precedence over all else. The growth of materialism, however, has made this a consideration remote and even incomprehensible to the majority.
Richard M. Weaver Carolinian
Source
p. 49
- work
- Ideas have Consequences (1948)
- year
- 1948
- locator
- p. 49
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