We Must Get Beyond Textbooks, Go Out Into the Bypaths and Untrodden Depths of the Wilderness of Truth

John Hope Franklin? John Hope? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: Educator and activist John Hope has received credit for the following statement: We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness. Confusingly, these words have also been attributed to historian and educator John Hope Franklin. Some versions use the …