Frederick Taylor Gates
| Frederick Taylor Gates link (Clergyman,advisor,deep state operative) | |
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| Born | July 22, 1853 New York State |
| Died | February 6, 1929, Phoenix, Arizona |
| Nationality | US |
| Alma mater | University of Rochester,Rochester Theological Seminary |
The principal business and philanthropic advisor to the major oil industrialist John D. Rockefeller, Sr. | |
Frederick Taylor Gates was an American Baptist clergyman, educator, and the principal business and philanthropic advisor to the major oil industrialist John D. Rockefeller, Sr., from 1891 to 1923.[1]
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“In our dreams, we have limitless resources and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding bands. The present education conventions fade from their minds, and unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning, or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, editors, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have an ample supply.
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The task we set before ourselves is very simple as well as a very beautiful one, to train these people as we find them to a perfectly ideal life just where they are. So we will organize our children and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way, in the homes, in the shops and on the farm.”
Frederick T. Gates [2]
References
- ↑ https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/02/07/95877097.pdf
- ↑ http://www.sntp.net/education/leipzig_connection_6.htm Frederick T. Gates, "The Country School of Tomorrow," Occasional Papers, no.1 (New York: General Education Board, 1913), p. 6.
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