The decay in American education is an alarming national security threat. They are unable to write a single, succinct, evocative sentence, like the magnificence of a “rosy-fingered dawn.” They could not pass the civics test required for naturalization.
They do not know President George Washington’s farewell address or President Thomas Jefferson’s first inaugural address, both warning against the bane of extreme partisanship. The survival of the United States is more and more a race between education and ignorance. The new generation is incapable of self-government. They do not understand the importance of process over personality. They are easily swayed by demagogues because their cerebral faculties have left their innate hormonal urges undomesticated. They feel worthless, lack faith, and believe in little beyond themselves. They are lonely and suicidal.
To the security of a free constitution it contributes in various ways — by convincing those who are entrusted with the public administration that every valuable end of government is best answered by the enlightened confidence of the people, and by teaching the people themselves to know and to value their own rights; to discern and provide against invasions of them; to distinguish between oppression and the necessary exercise of lawful authority; between burthens proceeding from a disregard to...
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