Origins of the Educational Nightmare.....

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Author, John Chodes, Destroying the Republic: Jabez Curry and the Re-Education of the Old South.

It has long been an accepted article of faith among Americans that education is a good thing. That, indeed, it is a necessity for a free and self-governing people.  But when and by whom was it determined that this desirable thing was to be universal, compulsory in attendance and tax support, "free," and devoted to inculcating government-coerced conformity?  Destroying the Republic provides much of the answer to this vital question.

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