Would bring quite different life experiences to the table.
"I think we as a college have a real difficulty. College education is very often a practical tool, if you will, a way of achieving some kind of upward financial and social mobility. I don't know how convinced people are that a school where they only read great books will help them. [...] If you want your children to have more than you did and you heard about this college where they only read great books, you'd probably say: 'Well, ... that sounds nice but I'd rather you go to a college where there are majors.'"
| A quote from George Russell, a St. John's College "tutor," or professor, in Jason Song's Baltimore Sun article Enrolling few minorities, a college wonders why"
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