Word: intelligentiae
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...which they neither respect nor in any way follow. In other words, legal restriction, upon which government must be based, becomes the laughing stock of the present generation. Holding our point with respect to the colleges of America, we consider the situation particularly serious. That the supposed intelligentia of a nation should be environed by such an attitude can scarcely have other than serious consequences in the future...
American universities have all too frequently been likened to grist-mills, grinding out a mediocre product of intelligentia. Certainly the ideal university is not merely a large-scale vendor of knowledge, and it is perhaps with apprehension of this tendency in American education that President Butler of Columbia has taken the occasion of the inaugural exercises at Washington University to define the mission of the modern University. As important as the task of advancing learning, he believes, is that of offering a "reconciliation of the conflicting movements of nationalism and internationalism...
...Paul Vinogradov, Chairman of the Educational Committee of the Russian Duma before the Revolution and now professor of jurisprudence at Oxford, declared that the whole system has been disorganized, that the Bolsheviki are engaged in making " robots " of the people, and that the exile of the intelligentia makes educational reconstruction difficult. Sixteen thousand members of this class have been deported, according to Sir Paul. The result is that it will be necessary first to build schools, and second to organize and train teachers. The middle class from which teachers would ordinarily come has been destroyed and the only ready supply...
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