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To: achilles2000

“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.


41 posted on 12/05/2010 1:59:02 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

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.


43 posted on 12/05/2010 3:15:41 PM PST by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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