Word: classless
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...good majority of citizens of this country accept as axiomatic the statement that this nation should be classless. They freely admit that hereditary rights are strictly limited to private property, and that even the inheritance of private property, does not carry with its undue privileges. Certainly it is a principle of this republic that the inheritance of private property shall not determine the opportunity for education nor its hope...
...continue to have an essentially free and classless this country, we must proceed from the premise that there are no educational privileges. We must endeavor to sort out at each stage in the educational process those boys and girls who can profit from one type of education, and those who can profit by another. There must be a variety of educational channels leading towards different walks to life. And as far as possible there should be no hierarchy of education disciplines; no one channel should have a social standing above the other...