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11/29/10 -- The Importance of Civics Education
Noah Webster, one of America’s most renowned educators and author of our nation’s first textbooks, wrote in 1788 that, “Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country.”
The purpose of education, he believed, is not just to teach reading, writing, and math, but to disseminate important information about our rights as Americans and “implant in the minds of the American youth the principles of virtue and of liberty and inspire them with…an inviolable attachment to their own country.”
Webster knew, just as our Founders did, that civics education is an essential ingredient for liberty and good citizenship and that knowledge of our country must be renewed each generation.
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