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  1. Jun 2024
    1. On their shoulders rested the responsibility for teaching a common course of study as well as the moral values and sensibilities that would preserve and perpetuate the repub-lic.

      This made me think about the discussion we had in class about the purpose of schools. Specifically, if the purpose of schools is to serve the greater good. this definition of the role of teachers implies that the main course of study revolved around this idea of creating good citizens that would preserve the society we consider to be apart of the greater good. It is interesting to see that this really was an important part of our school system in earlier days.