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According to Charles Baudelaire's defi-nition-by-negation of a superior man-"He is not a specialist"-Benjamin Franklin was one of the most superior men who ever lived. He was also, according to Phillips Russell's widely read biography, "the first civilized American." Superior or merely civilized, he certainly spread himself. Almost everyone now knows that he invented the lightning rod and bifocal glasses, that he-founded the Saturday Evening Post and the Philosophical Society of America, but even the brighter college students may be surprised to learn that he was a glass manufacturer who designed...
...conflict with each other or give inadequate recognition to each other, not merely between different school systems, but between different classes or grades or schools within a single system. Until there can be agreement upon some statement of purpose which, as Dr. Briggs demands, shall give due recog- nition to education as essentially a State investment, it is unlikely that public secondary school education will prove itself worth what...