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the children of every citizen, gratis, competent instruction’’
Abraham Lincoln, in an 1832 address to his home county folk in Illinois, made a similar point.
President Lincoln said, “For my part, I desire to see the time when education—and by its means morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry—shall become much more general than at present.”
Education is, he told his listeners, “the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. ”
Theodore Roosevelt, in a 1905 address to the National Education Association, declared: “The children, wherever they have been bom, wherever their parents have been bom, who are educated in our schools side by side with another, will inevitably grow up having that sense of mutual sympathy and mutual respect and understanding which is absolutely indispensable for working out the problems that we as citizens have before us.”
Teddy Roosevelt’s contemporary, Woodrow Wilson, couldn’t agree more. "Without popular education,” Wilson once wrote, “no government which rests upon popular action can long endure.”
Added Franklin Roosevelt in a 1935 message to teachers published in the NEA Journal: “It is your duty, no less than mine, to look beyond the narrow confines of the schoolroom; to see that education provides strength, and security for those institutions we have treasured since we first established ourselves as a nation and shall continue everlastingly to cherish.”
The commitment to providing the kind of quality education our children and oumObntry need must begin now. With the present state of the economy forcing cutbacks at all levels of government, we have to establish priorities. Public education should be at the top of the list. It’s up to the citizens of Rappahannock County to carry that message to the school board and to the board of supervisors.
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