 | Roscoe Pound - 1959 - 600 ˹éÒ
...recognizing that educa tional equality is a prerequisite for economic, social, and civic equality: Today education is perhaps the most important function of state and local govern ments. Compulsory school attendance laws and the great expenditures for educatio1 both demonstrate... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1959 - 726 ˹éÒ
...having a Department of Education. The people of this country will never stand for Federal schooling. Today, education is perhaps the most important function of State and local governments. Two years ago the Special Presidential Commission studying the so-called national emergency in public... | |
 | United States Commission on Civil Rights - 1959 - 216 ˹éÒ
...brought on behalf of Negro children against school boards in four States, the Chief Justice declared: Today, education is perhaps the most important function of State and local governments. ... It is the very foundation of good citizenship. ... In these days, it is doubtful that any child... | |
 | United States Commission on Civil Rights - 1961 - 280 ˹éÒ
...compliance with a court order to desegregate. In the School Segregation Cases the Supreme Court said ". . . education is perhaps the most important function of State and local governments. . . . Such an opportunity (for an education), where the State has undertaken to provide it, is a right... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Education and Labor - 1962 - 758 ˹éÒ
...or even in 1896 when the opinion in the case of Plegsy v. Ferguson was written, the decision states, today education is perhaps the most important function of State and local government and is the very foundation of good citizenship. ''In these days," the ruling continues,... | |
 | George J. Alexander - 1963 - 132 ˹éÒ
...the light of its full development and its present place in American life throughout the nation.... Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.... It is the very foundation of good citizenship. Today it is a principal instrument in awakening the... | |
 | John Silard, Potomac Institute (Washington, D.C.) - 1963 - 78 ˹éÒ
...the light of its full development and its present place in American life throughout the nation . . . 'Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments ... it is the very foundation of good citizenship. Today it is a principal instrument in awakening... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1964 - 860 ˹éÒ
...emphasized the importance of equal treatment in our public schools. The Court observed that formal education is ''perhaps the most important function of state and local governments," is "the very foundation of good citizenship," and is virtually indispensable to individual success... | |
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We must consider public education in the light of its full development and its present place in American life throughout the Nation. Only in this way can it be determined if segregation in public schools deprives these plaintiffs of the equal protection... 
