I regard disinterested learning as a matter of great importance, and I should wish to see its place in academic life increased, not diminished. Both in England and in America, the main force tending to its diminution has been the desire to get endowments from ignorant millionaires. The cure lies in the creation of an educated democracy, wiling to spend public money on objects which out captains of industry are unable to appreciate. ... This evil is greater in American than in England, but it exists in England, and my increase.引自 The University
表示其中内容是对原文的摘抄