Link: All People Are Created Educable, a Vital Oft-Forgotten Tenet of Modern Democracy

In All People Are Created Educable, a Vital Oft-Forgotten Tenet of Modern Democracy, we are reminded of the importance of education in the functioning of democracy:

Many shocking, new ideas shaped the American Experiment and related 18th century democratic ventures; as an historian of the period, I often notice that one of the most fundamental of them, and most shocking to a world which had so long assumed the opposite, often goes unmentioned — indeed sometimes denied — in today’s discussions of democracy: the belief that all people are educable.

It’s not a long read, and it’ll stay with you much longer.