EDUC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Aristocracy
7 Feb 2017
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To serve the public need, not individuals. The us was not intended to be a democracy. The founding fathers intended the us to be a republic. A group of education, elected elites would run the nation in place of a king. For a republic to be successful, it needed educated leaders. 1790 -- proposed a national university to train the next generation of republican leaders. 1779 -- proposed 3 years of free education to all non-slave children. The most talented would be taken and educated at taxpayer expense. By this means twenty of the best geniuses will be raked from the rubbish annually and be instructed at the public expense. What does this tell us about the early purpose of public education. The process by which a person learns the norms, customs, values and ideologies of a society. Each change to the pledge resulted from a political change.
