“We will not hire a blacksmith who never lifted a sledge,” Mark Twain said on September 30, 1876. “We will not hire a schoolteacher who does not know the alphabet … but when you come to our civil service, we serenely fill great numbers of our minor public offices with ignoramuses.”
“We will not hire a blacksmith who never lifted a sledge,” Mark Twain said on September 30, 1876. “We will not hire a schoolteacher who does not know the alphabet … but when you come to our civil service, we serenely fill great numbers of our minor public offices with ignoramuses.”