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can teach children to read, write, and calculate. If students understand
the
nature of our Western democratic tradition, they will move into social
criticism on their own. But let us not politicize the curriculum on behalf
of either the left or the right.
I recognize that I am very much in the minority in these comments.
But given basic philosophical disagreements with the report, I cannot
conscientiously go along with my colleagues. I respect their serious con–
cern and their devoted labor, and I have enjoyed my association with
them. I would only beg them to consider what kind of nation we
will
have if we press further down the road to cultural separatism and ethnic
fragmentation, if we institutionalize the classification of our citizens
by
ethnic and racial criteria, and if we abandon our historic commitment to
an American identity. What will hold our people together then?
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