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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Lester Frank Ward was an American botanist, paleontologist, and sociologist. He served as the first president of the American Sociological Association.

June 18, 1841 - April 18, 1913

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The secret of the superiority of state over private education lies in the fact that in the former the teacher is responsible to society ... [T]he result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.