Word: classlessness
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...good majority of citizens of this country accept as axiomatic the statement that this nation should be classless. They freely admit that hereditary rights are strictly limited to private property, and that even the inheritance of private property does not carry with it undue privileges. Certainly it is a principle of this republic that the inheritance of private property shall not determine the opportunity for education nor its scope...
...continue to have an essentially free and classless society in this country, we must proceed from the premise that there are no educational privileges. We must endeavor to sort out at each stage in the educational process those boys and girls who can profit from one type of education, and those who can profit by another. There must be a variety of educational channels leading towards different walks in life. And as far as possible there should be no hierarchy of education disciplines; no one channel should have a social standing above the other...
...clearest-headed of all managers to be found in any country. They are confident and aggressive. Though many of them have some background in Marxism, they have no faith in the masses of such a sort as to lead them to believe in the ideal of a free, classless society. At the same time, they are sometimes openly scornful of capitalists and capitalist ideas. They ... are not so squeamish as to insist that their words should coincide with their actions and aims...
...good majority of citizens of this country accept as axiomatic the statement that this nation should be classless. They freely admit that hereditary rights are strictly limited to private property, and that even the inheritance of private property, does not carry with its undue privileges. Certainly it is a principle of this republic that the inheritance of private property shall not determine the opportunity for education nor its hope...
...continue to have an essentially free and classless this country, we must proceed from the premise that there are no educational privileges. We must endeavor to sort out at each stage in the educational process those boys and girls who can profit from one type of education, and those who can profit by another. There must be a variety of educational channels leading towards different walks to life. And as far as possible there should be no hierarchy of education disciplines; no one channel should have a social standing above the other...