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<div>"<SPAN contentEditable=false style="DISPLAY: inline-block"></SPAN>Without public education, we might as well set our clocks back 300 years and<br>
restrict education to only those that can afford it." Tom-Tom Hansen.</div>
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<div>I don't think that the education in the Colonies 300 years ago was only for the "well off". If that were the case then why was there a 98% literacy rate back then? <br>
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