Letter to the editor: Public training funding is vital to sturdy democracy

In comparison with the opposite international locations in NATO, we already are far behind in our common entry to larger training. Many highschool graduates within the EU have entry to college training no matter their monetary standing. Cease quibbling about who qualifies for tuition help with college or school training.

As a retired environmental historian and mariner, I imagine that the energy of a democracy is straight associated to the median academic degree of the citizens. The much less educated the citizens, the better the chance for formidable dictators to govern them – consider Donald Trump and his supporters.

If we’re to keep up our democratic republic, we should make larger training accessible to all who search it, and it have to be made financially accessible by a graduated revenue tax that takes extra from the rich than from the center lessons or the poor.

Within the Colonial interval, New England cities beneath Massachusetts’ jurisdiction needed to have a free public college with the intention to ship a delegate to the Governor’s Council.

An funding in public training is an funding in political stability and financial development.

William Burgess Leavenworth
Searsmont


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