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Labor Day Blast from the Past: Samuel Gompers on Public Education

by Thomas J. Mertz

The New York Times, September 4, 1910. Click image for pdf.

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Excerpts from a speech given to the 1916 Convention of the National Education Association, “The Public Schools and the Working Man,” (full speech linked).  Gompers was folloed by John Dewey on the program!
From the introduction:
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