“Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may have a generation of professors whose duty it will be to disseminate information which they have not the time to acquire.”

— Edwin Boring

Edwin G. Boring (1942) Sensation and Perception in the History of Experimental Psychology, Preface. p. xi

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