(2) Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge; I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers. - John Adams, Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law — 1765
Education is an important part of what makes (or should make) America that shining beacon on the hill, in that only an educated people can understand, respect and revere the freedoms and liberties we Americans take for granted. Of course, there's always a debate on what should be taught; that isn't new...what is new is that for decades the Left had a near-monopoly on education and only in the past few years have conservatives begun making inroads back into the educational sphere.
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