07-23-2020, 03:46 PM
(07-23-2020, 03:30 PM)Dill Wrote: LOL Wilson also segregated the Federal Government.
Looking at his place in "the arc of history," he was certainly a mover and shaker who set the stage (though he could not open the curtain) on Liberal internationalism. From my perspective, hard to complain about that.
I think when teachers teach about guys like this, they need to present both sides of them, and the lingering effects of each.
I think it dangerous to say we cannot teach the bad side with the good, and accustom students to expect or assume that past leaders were all good; as if evil is always outside the great men, and opposing it is never opposing them.
I don't disagree with any of this. Just as a bureaucrat, I have to recognize that Wilson is one of the founders of our modern day bureaucracy. He literally wrote the book on it. However, much like many others, it doesn't make him immune from criticism.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
