Elvis Nuno on Nostr: The last one confuses me a bit… Public education is one of the most significant ...

The last one confuses me a bit… Public education is one of the most significant creation that’s singly handedly lead to education being something reserved purely for the rich, elite, upper and ruling classes, to being something *literally* everyone can receive.
To the Founding Fathers of the United States one of the most revolutionary and core concept’s they created was the idea of a public institution that provided education to each and every person, regardless of race, gender, religion, or social class.
Jefferson, Franklin, and Adams all *strongly* fought for the creation of public schools, so that a person that grew up on a farm (who were historically left completely illiterate) could receive the same education as someone that grew up in the richest family, or the highest eschlons of society.
Without public education we might as well go back to the dark ages. When people attended church where mass was conducted in LATIN — so not only could they not understand the words spoken, but wouldn’t be able to verify them if they wanted to, since they couldn’t read the Bible.
Being anti-public education is to be anti-knowledge. Anti-learning. Believing that these things should be tightly held and kept secret by the ruling class, at the expense of the public as a whole.