Word: casteless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conant's faith in an educational system reconstructed in conformity with the "three fundamentals of the Jeffersonian tradition"--freedom of mind, social mobility through education, and universal schooling--to achieve a casteless American society, "a society in which ideals of both personal liberty and social justice can be maintained" is a "good ideal" but of very doubtful practical application. A system of public education "resisting the distorting pressures of urbanized, industrial life" is "necessary." But it is not "sufficient...
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