RCSSCI 220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: State School
12 Sep 2016
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The government is only as good as the intelligent people who check it"s power. The founding fathers all independently wrote about the importance of education. The struggle for the common, school has been a conflict not only against tyranny, but against indifference, prejudice, and ignorance . Key quotation: frames the level of importance in the historical context. Understand that the nation set aside massive land and financial grants for schools. Taxes collected to pay for the schools should be viewed as an investment . Colgrove says the school is a place for all race and creeds (however this is before desegregation) State school laws are based of christian doctrine of the individual worth of a child. The state has an incentive to educate in order to create good citizens that they then not need punish. State education has been proven to work time and time again. One must have unwavering confidence in the system.
