Education
Blau holds a BA in English from Harvard University (1965) and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University (1973). His doctoral thesis was titled, The body as ground of being in four novels of Herman Melville (later published as The Body Impolitic by Editions Rodopi, 1979).
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“Whether in the field of health, education or welfare, I have put my emphasis on preventive rather than curative programs and tried to influence our elaborate, costly and ill- co-ordinated welfare organizations in that direction. Unfortunately the momentum of social work is still directed toward compensating the victims of our society for its injustices rather than eliminating those injustices.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)
“Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child’s life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play—that embryonic notion of kindergarten.”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)
“I prefer to finish my education at a different school.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)