The Goose-step: A Study of American Education — John Shaqi
The Goose-step: A Study of American EducationSinclair, Upton
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The Goose-step: A Study of American Education
Sinclair, Upton
Education -- United States; Universities and colleges -- United States
You might possibly think that our interlocking directors would be so
busy with the task of managing our industries and our government that
they would not have time to superintend our education; but that would be
underestimating their diligence and foresight. They do the job and they
do it personally, not trusting it to subordinates. In the office of the
Teachers’ Union of New York I inspected a chart, dealing with the
interlocking directorates of Columbia University; and except by the
label, you could not tell it from the charts in the three volumes of the
Pujo Reports. It is the same thing, and the men shown are the same men.
They serve J. P Morgan and Company as directors in the coal trust, the
steel trust, the railroad trust; they serve also on the boards of
schools, colleges, and universities through the United States. You could
not tell a chart of the Columbia trustees from a chart of the New York
Central Railroad, or the Remington Arms Company. You could not tell a
chart of Harvard University from a chart of Lee, Higginson and Company,
the banking house of Boston. You could not tell a chart of the
University of Pennsylvania from a chart of the United Gas Improvement
Company. You could not tell a chart of the University of Pittsburgh from
a chart of the United States Steel Corporation. You could not tell a
chart of the University of California from one of the Hydro-Electric
Power Trust, one of Denver University from the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company, one of the University of Montana from the Anaconda Copper
Company, one of the University of Minnesota from the Ore Trust. These
corporations are one, their interests are one, and their purposes are
one.
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