Exam 1: The Nature and Theory of the Public School

Other countries with a high standard of living have emulated the system of public education developed by the United States.

The system of common schools has followed the idea of "individual self-interest" and elevation of self over the interests of the state.

The primary purpose of public education in the United States is to:

The virtues of public schools can be summarized as the provision of equality of educational opportunity.

Much of the opposition to common schools came from the scientific community.

The foundation of the common school movement is based on the following:

According to Aristotle, each citizen is pledged in allegiance to the state to place the interests and common good of all above those of self and separate interests.

The idea of schooling the masses owes its origins to The Enlightenment, The Age of Reason of the Eighteenth Century.

The costs for students who attend common schools should be jointly financed through state funds and tuition payments.

The idea of universal education was first installed in the United Kingdom before adoption in France and other European countries during the 18th Century.

No high-income OECD country has relied solely on private demand and supply in education, least of all in primary schooling.

If the world view explains worldly phenomena by supernatural forces, there is little room for reason, education, planning, or progress.

The primary purpose of public schools is to provide the nation with an economic competitive workforce.