Replies to post #479405 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[quester614]

Back when we were young, teachers didn't engaged in that occupation for MONEY. It was about creating a truly educated population to better our country. Now we get CRT or no education at all. There has always been the danger of having Government run public education to be weaponized against the parents.
Look at what Horace Mann says. The father of modern education. May be Vladimir Lennon would be better.


We, then, who are engaged in the sacred cause of education, are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause; and, just as soon as we can make them see the true relation in which they and their children stand to this cause, they will become advocates for its advancement, more ardent and ...
Horace Mann - Wikiquote

[janice shell]

Damn: This was supposed to be "anti-intellectual". Autocorrect.

But we are, and have been--at least for the 20th and 21st centuries--a profoundly intellectual nation.