In arguing for a tax to support public education in a time when education was largely private and only available to the wealthy, Jefferson argued that public education would ensure that the upper classes would not overthrow American democracy and create a class system to the detriment of the working classes. And so he wrote to a friend;
"If you think that education is expensive, try ignorance."
The issues today are different, but there is still a worthwhile warning in the statement.
T.S. Hall
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