Stephen Bates Quotes
Conflicts over the public-school curriculum are commonplace, clamorous and unproductive. The two sides talk (more frequently, shout) past each other. Protesters often suggest that anyone who disagrees must be un-Christian, immoral, racist or sexist.
Stephen Bates, Writer & Columnist, Literary Editor of the Wilson Quarterly, “Schoolbook Protests: Advice for Both Sides”, Quoted in Charles C. Haynes, Common Ground: A Guide to Religious Liberty in the Public Schools
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The Emperor was then only 20 years old and it is doubtful that this was actually written by him personally or even that he was the originator or driver of this policy—probably the strongest statement regarding education of any nation in history. Nonetheless, it is a great quotation on the role of education in the nation. He even ordained that all girls should be educated—an achievement which had not been achieved by the majority of countries 140 years later in 2012. Most incredible about this quotation is that the Emperor made everything else of importance subordinate to the education of children." Meiji the Great
The mayor had eliminated an independent Board of Education and obtained more control of the Chicago Public Schools and instituted long needed reforms.
The phrase “national care and expense” was one that was seen as precedent for those advocating federal aid to education and a strong Department of Education. However, the majority of Adams contemporaries saw education, even public education, as a local matter. The word “education” or “school” never appeared in the Constitution. Adams was well before his time on this point.
The governor had unseated Eugene Talmadge, an extreme anti-intellectual who refused to have anyone in his cabinet who had more than an eighth grade education:
It did not pass. Smalls had a hand in re-writing the Constitution of the State into which he had been born into slavery.
The Secretary apologized a few days
Written when he was the President of Harvard. Harvard and most of the established schools, though pretending to free inquiry in all academic matters, could not handle the abolition question. Princeton, was so racist that they not only were silent about slavery but did not admit a Black student until the Second World War.There were exceptions. Oberlin College was a critical stop on the Underground Railroad, and that institution alone graduated more than one third of all the Negro college graduates in America for the entire 19th century. In 1790, the top student of Brown University gave a commencement address that was a searing indictment of slavery {622025} despite the fact that the school’s namesake was an active slave trader.
