Julius Sumner Miller Quote

We are approaching a darkness in the land. Boys and girls are emerging from every level of school with certificates and degrees, but they can't read, write or calculate. We don't have academic honesty or intellectual rigor. Schools have abandoned integrity and rigor.


As quoted in "TV and Classroom Physicist : 'Professor Wonderful,' Julius Sumner Miller, Dies" by Gerald Faris, in The Los Angeles Times (16 April 1987)


We are approaching a darkness in the land. Boys and girls are emerging from every level of school with certificates and degrees, but they can't read, ...

We are approaching a darkness in the land. Boys and girls are emerging from every level of school with certificates and degrees, but they can't read, ...

We are approaching a darkness in the land. Boys and girls are emerging from every level of school with certificates and degrees, but they can't read, ...

We are approaching a darkness in the land. Boys and girls are emerging from every level of school with certificates and degrees, but they can't read, ...