Exploring marriage advice quotes can be fun. After all, teachers’ unions are motivated by the same desires that move the rest of us. With more than 85{37cb68deedc28952cf539b2883fab1aeebe007ed2a99fb6afad134f549a43498} of their soft-money donations going to Democrats, teachers’ unions know they can count on the politician they back to take a strong stand against school choice.” January 2000.

37. ‘There is, it seems, more concern about whether children learn the mechanics of reading and writing than grow to love reading and writing; learn about democracy than have practice in democracy; hear about knowledge… rather than gain experience in personally constructing knowledge… see the world narrowly, simple and ordered, rather than broad complex and uncertain’.

The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people and be willing to bear the expenses of it. There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.

Secondary education has a longer history in Europe, where grammar schools or academies date from as early as the 6th century, a in the form of public schools , fee-paying schools , or charitable educational foundations, which themselves date even further back.

In those healthy times, guided by silent instincts and the monition of Nature, men had from of old been used to teach themselves what it was essential to learn, by the one sure method of learning anything, practical apprenticeship to it. This was the rule for all classes; as it now is the rule, unluckily, for only one class.