A few clever ones, at the cost of enormously expensive machinery, are sent to the universities, where they learn how to teach others the important things whereby they achieved their own unimportant success.

The shining lights are those whom we turn out as syndicalist leaders and other kinds of anti-patriotic demagogues.

We systematically deny them the wine of thought, but give them the dregs.

But in the past we did not care; they were vastly clever people, a credit to our national system.

It gave them chances which they took.