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Friday, September 01, 2006
Posted
10:05 AM
by Susan Darst Williams
JEFFERSON KNEW THE WISDOM
OF SEPARATION OF SCHOOL AND STATE
Here's a word from one of America's smartest citizens ever, that should be taken to heart by all those who want a happy ending for Nebraska's Class I and OPS controversies that are splitting our state apart right now.
The answer: take schools private.
The reason:
"If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council, the commissioners of the literary fund, or any other general authority of the government, than by the parents within each ward, it is a belief against all experience."
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Joseph C. Cabell, 1816
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