Show GOOD CITIZEN Free Schools Can Safeguard Democracy by Teaching Truth Thle l the of a of 10 article from the booklet by the American lb and or an The seventh promise of a good I will support our system of free public education by doing everything I can to improve the schools in my own Many and Ideologies are being peddled and sold around the world Most of them Ignore and brush lightly aside the inalienable rights of liberty and pursuit of Isn't it fortunate that we have at hand a system of education I which can give to our boys and girls 7 the knowledge and ability to separate the f true from half true to look straight in the a- The coming with minds and hearts reinforced with such Is more powerful than an Our public our private schools and our schools conducted under religious auspices all must provide the climate and the soil for the roots and the fruits of free good keep our system of education THE SCHOOLS are You pay for There is much that you can do to improve and the need is Teachers enjoy or ought to enjoy freedom from social and political freedom to seek the eternal truths and to present these truths In a way that will stimulate young minds to look for truth and be able to recognize it when they find Teachers should be proud of their They deserve the sociability and respect accorded to lawyers and members of other Teachers should be able to live their private lives as any other self-respecting citizen lives his neither playing to the community nor being dictated to by the social arbiters of the whoever they may Help to make your schools a force for national unity by protecting our children from bigotry and It has been fears no enemy but The generation which did not fight the war is trying to understand what why it and what can be done to straighten out the Help it to find out through even freer schools which bring to it the distilled truth wrested from the experience of all recorded which encourage the search for and which foster the undeveloped talents which are America's greatest source of MARK referring to a foreign once said vast expense of maintaining the army has made it necessary to and so the government had decided that to support the army it would be necessary to withdraw the appropriation from the public schools is curious to reflect how history repeats itself the world I remember the same thing was done when I was a boy on the Mississippi There was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped the schools they would not saye because every time a school was closed a jail had to be like feeding a dog on his own He'll never get I believe it is better to support schools than Jails article la Chapter 1 of the produced by The Amerlean Heritage of the freedom A complete book may be obtained by centa to American Heritage New N. T. |