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In such a Society, there cannot be a Common School, in any such sense as we mean it.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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gutenberg.orgHenry Ward Beecher: “In such a Society, there cannot be a Common School, in any such sense as we mean it.”
Editor's note · Context
Beecher argues that a society divided by class cannot support a common educational system.
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