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Woodrow Wilson: “Yet organized popular education is only one of the quickening influences that have been producing the general…”

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Yet organized popular education is only one of the quickening influences that have been producing the general enlightenment which is everywhere becoming the promise of general liberty.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Wilson argues that organized education is one of many influences contributing to widespread enlightenment and liberty.

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