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   EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY

I believe that making free K--12 education in a state supported system available to everyone is critically important to democracy, since well educated citizens are, as Jefferson put it, “the ultimate guardians of their own liberty." Such education should provide all students with equal opportunity to find their place in society based on their own interests and ability. It should give them tools to learn more efficiently, help them learn to get along with others, better understand the human experience / accumulated knowledge, select their own moral and political values, and ultimately to select good government leaders. As society grows technologically and ethically more complex, voters are increasingly asked to make decisions involving such complexities. Education should also prepare students for doing this.

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"As you shop in "The Reality Marketplace" avoid spending your "reality cash" too early,  before you have seen everything. " 
from Coming of Age in the Global Village,  by Stephen P. Cook,  with Donella H. Meadows.

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