This is the architect of the our beloved public-school system.
This is the US Representative who brought to America our beloved public-school system from Prussian in 1850.
"Plato has Socrates describe a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall from objects passing in front of a fire behind them, and give names to these shadows. The shadows are the prisoners' reality. Socrates explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall are not reality at all, for he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the manufactured reality that is the shadows seen by the prisoners. The inmates of this place do not even desire to leave their prison, for they know no better life. The prisoners manage to break their bonds one day, and discover that their reality was not what they thought it was."
It it possible that the school system in this country has chained you to a wall in Plato's cave?
If so, what is the solution?
Why is Betsy DeVos doing nothing to remove government influence from the schools? I don't see a valid reason.