Philosophically, public schools have been understood to represent a public purpose. “The founders of the nation were convinced that the republic could survive only if its citizens were properly educated,” writes historian David Tyack. “This was a collective purpose, not simply an individual benefit or payoff to an interest group… The common school… was a place for both young and adult citizens to discover common civic ground, and, when they did not agree, to seek principled compromise.”16 “Federalists and anti-Federalists alike agreed that the success of the new experimental Constitution depended as much on the character and competence of the citizenry as on the clarity and farsightedness of the Constitution,”17 explains political philosopher Benjamin Barber.
Anybody who is against public education is basically anti-American.
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