Harvard's President Believed Books, Not Schooling, Were the Key To Education

On this episode of Our American Stories, believe it or not, Charles Eliot said all a man needs for a good education is a 5-foot bookshelf. Here's the story behind his claim and what came to be known as "The Harvard Classics."

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