An educated fool is a sorry spectacle, but he is not nearly so dangerous to society as a rich fool.
Calvin Coolidge: “An educated fool is a sorry spectacle, but he is not nearly so dangerous to society as a rich fool.”
On the recordNovember 13, 1924
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Proclamation—American Education Week, 1924
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