Posted on 12/05/2010 4:46:07 AM PST by Jacquerie
“After the Declaration of Independence, 14 states had their own constitutions by 1791, and out of the 14, 7 states had specific provisions for education. Jefferson believed that education should be under the control of the government, free from religious biases, and available to all people irrespective of their status in society. Others who vouched for public education around the same time were Benjamin Rush, Noah Webster, Robert Coram and George Washington.”
That being said, you seem to ignore what I wrote in favor of being agitated with what you are prejudiced to believe I wrote. Therefore further discussion is irrelevant.
Oh I know. It’s such a simple solution they couldn’t even begin or imagine to begin to understand it. They wear blinders and it’s their way or the highway. That’s what makes us and them so different. They are happy wo keep everything in chaos whereas we want to move forward with everyone working towards bettering their lives. You’d think their followers would know this by now but...then again....
Not one of those Constitutions required anything like what we know as the public school system. What Jefferson and Rush may have “vouched for” or “believed in” is also very different from actually having a public system at that time. Moreover, not one of them would have endorsed a government school system as it was created by Mann and the Unitarians. The schools Rush had in mind would have been tax funded Protestant parochial schools, for example.
Add me to your ping list if you have one. I look forward to reading your posts
I don’t have a ping list but I thank you very much for the kind words. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
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