[fake-name]

Maybe include the next part?

It goes:

> We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians. Nor will we cherish even the humbler ambition to raise up from among them lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we now have ample supply. We are to follow the admonitions of the good apostle, who said, ''Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low degree." And generally, with respect to these high things, all that we shall try to do is just to create presently about these country homes an atmosphere and conditions such, that, if by chance a child of genius should spring up from the soil, that genius will surely bud and not be blighted.

It's almost like you're using a deliberately malicious selective quote that completely changes what the author is trying to say.

[kstenerud]

To be fair, the article itself is doing the misquoting.

For others who are wondering, the full, non-sinister text of Gates can be found here:

https://www.metabunk.org/threads/context-people-yield-themse...

It's very much worth a read, at the very least to gain some perspective on how life was back then, and the problems they were trying to solve.