Is U.S. education really the best in the world? Most Americans think it is. But not Dorothy Thompson. In a Manhattan broadcast last week she boomed:
"The dubious success of our own education seems to me to call for great humility. . . . That raises the question of the extent to which mass political behavior is influenced by education. We have to ask ourselves how Germans became Nazis in the first place. The millions of youth who pushed Hitler to power were not taught Hitlerism in their schools and universities. . . ....
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