I reflected in my Mind on the extreme Folly of those Parents who, blind to their Children's Dullness, and insensible of the Solidity of their Skulls, because they think their Purses can afford it, will needs send them to the Temple of Learning [Harvard] where, for want of a suitable Genius, they learn little more than how to carry themselves handsomely and enter a Room genteelly (which might as well be acquired at a Dancing-School) and from whence they return, after Abundance of Trouble and Charge, as great Blockheads as ever, only more proud and self-conceited.
Has Harvard really changed in the nearly 300 years since that was written?
The genius of the Founding Fathers is reflected by their profound understanding of human nature. That quote is simply brilliant.