By adopting this method, not only the poverty of the parents will be relieved, but ignorance will be banished from the rising generation, and the number of poor will hereafter become less, because their abilities, by the aid of education, will be greater.
In advocating for public support for children, Paine argues that education will reduce future poverty and ignorance.
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