Grinnell College is a private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, U.S. known for its rigorous academics and tradition of social activism. It was founded in 1846, when a group of pioneer New England Congregationalists established the Trustees of Iowa College.
In its 2012 edition of America's Best Colleges, Grinnell was ranked 22nd among all liberal arts colleges in the United States by U.S. News & World Report. Grinnell's open curriculum encourages students to take initiative and to assume responsibility for their own courses of study.
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“... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the top shelf are written about, you kill two very large birds with one stone: you satisfy precious curiosities, and you make them believe that they know as much about life as people who really know something. If college boys are solemnly advised to listen to lectures on prostitution, they will listen; and who is to blame if some time, in a less moral moment, they profit by their information?”
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