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From: U.S. News & World Report
Date: 20070312
Author:Kingsbury, Alex

In his autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams, the grandson of the sixth president delivered the American school system one of its most memorable intellectual smackdowns. His treatise on the value of experiential learning concluded that his alma mater, Harvard University, "as far as it educated at all ... sent young men into the world with all they needed to make respectable citizens. Leaders of men it never tried to make." His schooling, replete with drunken revelry and privileged classmates, didn't prepare him for a world of radical change: the birth of radio, X-rays, ...

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