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It would not have been “difficult” for Horace Mann

by spgadmin

Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley said yesterday the decision to cut the state’s Lottery advertising budget was a “difficult” one.  Maryland uses lottery revenues to help fund public education.

Consider how the father of America’s system of public education, Horace Mann, would regard funding public education using a funding stream that relies on low-income people trapped in America’s debt culture.  In Mann’s view, “Education, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men, the balance wheel of the social machinery…It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich: it prevents being poor.”

Do you think it would have been “difficult” for Mann to eliminate advertising for lottery commercials after watching this?