Why we have *public* schools
Schools should serve "the Benefit of the Poor and the Rich; that the Children of all, partaking of equal Advantages and being placed upon an equal Footing, no Distinction might be made among them in the Schools on account of the different Circumstances of their Parents, but that the Capacity & natural Genius of each might be cultivated & improved for the future benefit of the whole Community."
- a resolution passed by a Boston town meeting in 1784, kicking off America's public school system, as quoted by J. Anthony Lukas in "Common Ground," page 121
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