Lawyer, teacher, scholar, academic administrator, educational reformer, governor, regulatory reformer, U.S. statesman and the 28th President of the United States. His leadership in all fields was visionary, inventive and bold. His dreams of reform and his accomplishments are evident in international organizations, in the regulatory framework of the federal government, and on virtually every campus of higher education in the United States. We grow great by dreams.
All big men are dreamers.
They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true. W oodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia, but he grew up in Augusta, Georgia, and Columbia, South Carolina. Wilson studied law at the University of Virginia and practiced in Atlanta, then later entered Johns Hopkins University to do graduate work in political science and history. He then earned a Ph.D. at Princeton.