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The Academic Mind is a report on academic freedom. Based on lengthy interviews with 2500 social scientists, the book tries to appraise the effect of McCarthyism on American scholars and teachers. The questionnaires were designed by Paul Lazarsfeld and the Columbia Bureau for Applied Social Research, financed by Robert Hutchins...
"If we can only educate 15 per cent in a way that anybody would recognize, as education, then we ought to reconsider universal suffrage." Hutchins concluded.
"If the smaller high schools were eliminated, in states like the Dakotas, Alabama, and Mississippi, the children would have to spend a very large part of every day in travel," Hutchins explained.
According to Hutchins, Conant's recommendation was based on the "unsound" assumption that only 15 per cent of the high school students were qualified for a demanding academic program.
"I see no justification whatever for the conclusion that only 15 per cent of the American can be seriously educated," Hutchins asserted. He called the effort to educate everybody to the limit of his capacity "indispensable."