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Certainly some ultimate educational values seem forever to be eluding the Americans. At great effort and expense they send an extraordinary proportion of their young to colleges and universities; but their young, when they get there, do not seem to care even to read.(Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter, 1962, p. 301)

Long  ago, there were people who believed the Earth was hollow—a thin outer shell and a void in the center. There are still people who believe in this void, except they say creatures from outer space live there. Others have different fears. in the 1960s, the Congress of the United States was considering legislation to [...]