Moses’s mother selected elite tutors and prep schools for her sons

Evidence

Bella was particularly interested in the boys’ education. She selected as their tutors young men with outstanding credentials; the boys’ favorite, for example, had just returned from Oxford, where he had taken a double first in classics and literary humanities. When Paul was thirteen, Robert twelve and Edna nine, the children were enrolled in the Ethical Culture School. After two years, the boys were transferred to the Dwight School for two years and then were sent to board for a year at one of the most expensive of college preparatory schools, the Mohegan Lake Academy near Poughkeepsie, before they went on to college, Paul to Princeton and Robert, who had never forgotten his desire to return to New Haven, to Yale. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 151

Categorization

• XREF: The Ethical Culture School and Yale detail connects to later chapters and to broader themes of how elite educational grooming produces governing power in America. — connects to: Moses’s defining personality traits came from his mother’s line — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 160

Broader Connections

• Moses’s defining personality traits came from his mother’s line #expands (0.75) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 160