Education: Camp-ISS-Bellow Vistas

We're leaders, we're leaders, you'd think we were the best,

But if we are the leaders, ain't you sad for the rest?

In Nazi Germany, where future Führers are chosen at the age of 8 and finish their rigorous training in mountain castles, nobody would think of singing such a ditty. But in the closest U.S. equivalent, a student-leadership institute at President Roosevelt's summer house in Campobello, New Brunswick, a group of would-be young U.S. leaders chanted it lustily last week, thereby pointing out a distinction: a democracy's leaders must have a...

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