Schoolhouse Burning: Public Education and the Assault on American Democracy
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- TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO OUR FOUNDING FATHERS GAVE US two gifts. Both were relatively unknown to the world at the time. The first was democracy—what they called a republican form of government. The second was public education. These gifts were inextricably intertwined.
- A republican form of government would allow
- From its first days, the nation’s theory of government depended on educated citizens. The founders feared that democracy without education would devolve into mob rule, open doors to unscrupulous politicians, and encourage hucksters to take advantage of citizens even as they stood in line to vote.
- Education was embedded into the very structure of these new lands.
- our political community would govern itself and grow. It provided that “religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.”2
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