"Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best...that they may guide the Mass... Now the training of men is a difficult and intricate task. Its technique is a matter for educational experts, but its object is for the vision of seers. If we make money the object of man-training, we shall develop money-makers but not necessarily men; if we make technical skill the object of education, we may possess artisans..."

-W.E.B. DuBois