If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Thomas Jefferson penned those words in an early debate on the role of government in education.  He went on to say:  “Universal education is the most effective means of preserving democracy and...
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Imagine the setting.  Feel the history in the pomp and circumstance of a presidential entrance into the chambers of the House of Representatives.  Consider...
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In 1986, Ronald Reagan addressed our nation’s schools with a speech that focused heavily on his administration’s political accomplishments.  He talked about inheriting a bad economy and declining defense budget, and then declared “And I think it’s fair to say that we’ve made a good deal of progress.”

In 1991,...
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Diamonds are abundant and not particularly valuable.  This common mineral has become an object of expensive desire through a carefully orchestrated and well funded campaign of deception perpetrated over a span of seven decades.  We have been duped.  We have been fooled into believing wrongly that these stones are rare and precious. ...
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Before imploding in the face of his sordid extramarital trysts, presidential candidate John Edwards based his campaign on the...
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