*not a case* — historical quotation

Edison's 1911 endorsement of MIT, quoted verbatim by Tom from a slide. Used as the punctuation of the "MIT trains practical engineers" point.

Walker believed that education should involve real practice. He and William Barton Rogers, who founded MIT, believed mens et manus — mind and hand. You have to get in there and do things. But Noyes thought, no, you should be a pure academic. I quote in the beginning here from Edison — December 1911, Thomas Edison wrote: "There is no question but that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the best technical institution in the country. I have found the graduates of Tech to have a better, more practical, more usable knowledge as a class than the graduates of any other school in the country. The salvation of America lies in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology." Hopefully that'll encourage you to read some more of that article about what makes MIT unique.