forth in this country a new notion, conceived in
socialism, and dedicated to the proposition that all
students must be created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil debate,
testing rather that notion, or any notion so arbitrary
and totalitarian, can long endure. We are met on a
great battlefield of that debate. We have come to
dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting
place for the ideologues who here told lies that this
infamous notion might live. It is altogether fitting
and propitious that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not deconstruct --
we can not debunk -- we can not satirize -- these
extremists. The brave reformers, living and dead, who
struggled here, have exposed them, far above our poor
power to add or detract. It is for us the free, rather,
to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they
who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is
rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task
remaining before us -- we here highly resolve that this
country, under God, shall have a new birth of
enlightenment -- and that education of the people, by
the people, for the people, shall not perish from the
earth.
Article Source:
http://www.edarticle.com/articles/42823/an-education-
message-for-2014.php
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