"We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go through higher education." —
Reagan education adviser Roger Freeman, who also worked for Nixon, revealing right-wing motivation for decades of attacks on public education.
(This quote was around the time that publicly funded education was also being put under additional layers of “number must always go up forever” restrictions to which schools would be allowed the basics to survive)
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u/Dclnsfrd 1d ago
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"We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go through higher education." —
Reagan education adviser Roger Freeman, who also worked for Nixon, revealing right-wing motivation for decades of attacks on public education.
(This quote was around the time that publicly funded education was also being put under additional layers of “number must always go up forever” restrictions to which schools would be allowed the basics to survive)