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Teddy Roosevelt: “The ideal for the graduate school and for those undergraduates who are to go into it must be the ideal of high scholarly…”

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The ideal for the graduate school and for those undergraduates who are to go into it must be the ideal of high scholarly production, which is to be distinguished in the sharpest fashion from the mere transmittal of ready-made knowledge without adding to it.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Roosevelt emphasizes the importance of high scholarly production in education.

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