Education
Most of the Old Latvians, although recognizing the importance of education, did not appear to want or to be able to afford college degrees. Thus, in 1911 only two individuals had obtained American university degrees.
The majority of Latvians emigrants to the United States after World War II were university graduates. Many were academics or belonged to intelligentsia.
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“In that reconciling of God and Mammon which Mrs. Grantly had carried on so successfully in the education of her daughter, the organ had not been required, and had become withered, if not defunct, through want of use.”
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“I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.”
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