Brendan Iribe Quotes
It just felt like the right thing to do to give back to a state school and public school. I'm a really big fan of public education.
Iribe, Brendan. "Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe Gives $31 Million to University of Maryland." Interview with Nick Anderson. The Washington Post, WP Company, 12 Sept. 2014.
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.
This appears to be the first statewide free public education system available to the poor.
Alabama. Mississippi and the other states of the South have from the inception of the nation had a much poorer educational system (often no system at all). Even when Jim Crow discrimination was rampant in the South, the white schools were very poor and the Black schools terrible. At the end of the 20th century after integration, there were more serious attempts to improve education in the South and progress is being made to reach parity with the rest of the country. However, there is still in many Southern school boards hostility to science and other aspects of modern education and Southern states tend to censor school texts and library books this weakening the educational system. But progress is being made.
Ironically, as important as education was to the early Americans, the words “education” and “school” never appeared in the Constitution nor is education even alluded to.
Brendan Trexler Iribe is an American game programmer, entrepreneur and the original CEO and co-founder of Oculus VR, Inc. and Scaleform. He is the managing partner at BIG Ventures, an early-stage venture fund.
