--VERNON A. WALTERS<br >There is no underestimating the intelligence of the<br >American public.<br > --H. L. MENCKEN<br >It is ironic that the United States should have been<br >founded by intellectuals for throughout most of our<br >political history the intellectual has been for the<br >most part either an outsider， a servant， or a scape-<br >goat.<br > -- RICfIARD ttOFSTAI)TER<br >Why do most Americans look up to education and<br >look down upon educated people?<br > --SYDNEY J. HARRIS<br >Americans are the only people in the world known<br >to me whose status anxiety prompts them to adver-<br >tise their college and university affiliations in the<br >rear window of their automobiles.<br > --PAUL FUSSELL<br >The idea of a college education for all young people<br >of capacity， provided at a nominal cost by their own<br >