" Woodrow Wilson, then president of Princeton University, said the following to the New York City School Teachers Association in 1909: “We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forgo the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks. "

― John Taylor Gatto , Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling