The Teaching of Public Administration

“Neither is it to be passed over in silence that this dedicating of colleges and societies only to the use of professory learning hath not only been an enemy of the growth of sciences, but hath redounded likewise to the prejudice of states and governments: for hence it commonly falls out that princes, when they would make choice of ministers fit for the affairs of state, finde about them such a marveilous solitude of able men; because there is no education collegiate designed to this end.” Bacon, Advancement of Learning, Book I Copyrigh