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Highway to the Horizon 



EDUCATION and research: clearer, more logical, less 

 emotional thinking, which is (or should be) the pur- 

 pose of education; research that finds, defines, and 

 then applies facts! It is not only in the South, where 

 Frederick McDonald so clearly sees these needs, that 

 mankind must build the future on these two solid 

 foundations. 



In the South as a whole, the foundation of education 

 is much too shallow and wobbly. Sincere Southerners 

 do not attempt to deny this. They advance many ex- 

 planations for its causes and they also propose many 

 cures. Neither causes nor cures are topics that prop- 

 erly come within the scope of our present inquiry, but 

 there are certain new manifestations of the existing 

 Southern educational system that will very much affect 

 the future development of Southern resources, human 

 and material. 



In this very field many of the Southern colleges and 

 universities are doing outstanding work, so outstand- 

 ing that some critics say their faculty members are 



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