Education: Bill Morris

When a Briton named Bill Morris turned up with his Bible in Buenos Aires' Boca dock section in the late 1890's, that district had five saloons to the block, two policemen on every corner to keep murders down to about four per day. Bill Morris, a shabby little street-corner preacher, had been looking all over the world for just such a place. First thing he did was to pick four homeless ragamuffins off the street, install them in a garret. He taught them himself, begged money to feed and clothe them.

In ten years,...