The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce.

" But Butler agreed saying "We should have women teachers with fuller lives and richer experience not so many dried-up old maids" Gildersleeve recorded this remark in her memoir without comment. She shared an "intimate" relationship with the British Spurgeon with whom Virginia Gildersleeve annually shared a rental summer home (see [5] - Our Story)
Following World War I Virginia Gildersleeve became interested in international politics. org) to keep alive the spirit of international understanding even as isolationism gripped her country.

Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve (October 3 1877 – July 7 1965) was an American academic the long-time Dean of Barnard College and the sole female US delegate to the April 1945 San Francisco United Nations Conference on International Organization which negotiated the UN Charter and created the United Nations.