well-purposed

Updated: June 19, 2025

The whole round of superficial educational machinery books, subsidies, resolutions, lectures, congresses may be of the highest value, provided they are used to digest and popularize the results of a genuine individual and national educational experience, but when they are used, as so often at present, merely as a substitute for well-purposed individual and national action, they are precisely equivalent to an attempt to fly in a vacuum.

Herbert David Croly - The Promise of American Life