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What did Thoreau say about Harvard and the “roots of knowledge”?

April 26, 2017harvard roots of knowledge thoreau

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What did Thoreau say about Harvard and the “roots of knowledge”?

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According to Walter Harding’s The Days of Henry Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson once noted that most of the branches of learning were taught at Harvard, to which Thoreau replied: “Yes, indeed, all the branches and none of the roots” (51).