Public Policy from a Constitutional Perspective: Education
For in time memorial, education of the masses was limited because it represented a threat to those that rule...they could not compete with it and would become irrelevant because of it. America was meant to be different. (my commentary)
Overview Article III of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 states that “schools and the means of education shall ever be encouraged,” but it left the specifics of education policy to local governments. By contrast, the modern administrative state seeks to centralize education policy and to force its edicts on every school in the nation. A restoration of the Founders’ understanding will require a return to their view of the purpose of education—and to the means they employed to attain it.
Overview Article III of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 states that “schools and the means of education shall ever be encouraged,” but it left the specifics of education policy to local governments. By contrast, the modern administrative state seeks to centralize education policy and to force its edicts on every school in the nation. A restoration of the Founders’ understanding will require a return to their view of the purpose of education—and to the means they employed to attain it.
