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“America is great because America is good. When she ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.”
Many U.S. presidents and politicians have attributed these words to Alexis de Tocqueville, a French political scientist who came to America in the 1830s to study the ethical foundation of our constitutional republic.
Jefferson proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence that the ethical base of our government is the “laws of nature and nature’s God.”
These laws declare that “all men are created equal and are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men…” God and government were united.
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A “Nation At Risk,” the report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, stated that the decline in educational performances is the result of disturbing inadequacies in the way the educational process is conducted.
The report indicated that these inadequacies are causing the loss of markets, intellectual strengths and spiritual strengths.
Lastly, the report offered five solutions: modify the school curriculum, raise educational expectations, make better use of time, improve the teaching profession and create the proper learning environment.
Mortimer J. Adler, and the Paideia Group have written three books to indicate how these five solutions might be implemented: “The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto,” “The Paideia Program: An Educational Syllabus” and “Paideia Problems and Possibilities.”