“The job of a college is to bring young people to intellectual and emotional maturity; to intelligence, by which I mean a subtle balance between the intellect and the emotions; not merely to an arbitrary selected amount of cramming… In great part I blame Hitlerism on German education, which always concerned itself only with the intellect, with stuffing the head full of facts, and thus prepared for Hitler a nation of emotional infants ready to succumb to his demagoguery. Essentially the same danger exists here, now that our emotional life is lurching into a general crisis, and for the same reason… Their heads are crammed with facts, but what knowledge they possess often does not include self-knowledge. “ (Professor John Andrew Rice, 1936, na Harper´s Monthly Magazine)
Estudantes em frente ao então edifício Robert E. Lee HalL, no primeiro campus da Black College Mountain, e Blue Ridge