The purpose of public education in America was never just to teach basic literacy or vocational skills — it was to shape citizens capable of sustaining a free republic.
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Thomas Jefferson, the most forceful advocate for public education among the Founders, argued that knowledge was the first line of defense against tyranny.
“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people,” he wrote, “They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”
Today, that mission has been betrayed.
Instead of teaching students to resist despotism and preserve liberty, much of our education system has been captured by ideologues who program young people against our country’s history and principles — causing disaster in our colleges and our streets.
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