“Neither the black boy nor the white will ever be educated in the best and broadest sense of the term who seeks an education merely to reach an office, for, as in nature a stream never rises higher than its source, so in life men never rise higher than their ideals. The education that merely seeks an office must of necessity be limited to the dimensions of that office.”

— William H. Crogman

Source: Talks for the Times (1896), "The Importance of Correct Ideals" (1892), p. 281

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