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To: metmom; Tired of Taxes; ExTexasRedhead; wintertime; Aquinasfan; RedStateRocker; arbooz; Impy; ...

Here you have, as far back as before World War I, a founding member of the public schools admitting that he didn’t want the public school students to achieve or even aspire to greatness. And his mission succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.

That’s public education, producing mediocre intellects and childish, dependent personalities for over 100 years.


2 posted on 04/16/2008 3:44:55 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Those in the national Republican leadership do the work of three men- Moe, Larry, and Curly.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Well, that certainly explains the liberal mindset doesn’t it.


3 posted on 04/16/2008 3:46:22 PM PDT by darkangel82 (If you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. (Say no to RINOs))
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To: Clintonfatigued

Hannah More, an upper class English lady who was involved in education in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, believed the working class should be taught to read so they could read the Bible, but not writing because that was above their station in live.


6 posted on 04/16/2008 4:20:07 PM PDT by FFranco
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