Your subject has been the focus of my studies for over 30 years. Thomas Jefferson was adamant about the importance of education for a strong and united republic. Coming out of the Age of Enlightenment it was known only highly moral people can have liberty, however, they based that morality on reason, not religion.

The thoughts of the Roman statesman Cicero were essential reading for everyone interested in democracy and that supports the notion that the cause of doing wrong is ignorance, and right reasoning will lead to right action. This belief is vital to our liberty and democracy.

Originally education in the US had very little to do with education for technology. Reading, writing, and math are technological skills, however, not even close to the technology that became the focus of education when we mobilized for the first world war. If we want to understand our national changes we must understand what war has to do with education, and what the military technology of the second world war and the nuclear bomb with missiles that can deliver such a bomb anywhere in the world, have to do with the National Defense Education Act and the radical change of public education that has radically social, economic and political ramifications.

We have adopted the bureaucratic model of our enemy and our enemies education for technology, and we now have reactionary politics as Germany had when Hitler took control, and are witnessing the decay of our democracy and increasing loss of liberty, as we no longer understand what morals have to do with our liberty and democracy.

I will be glad to validate every point with quotes if there is interest in what I have said.

The Germans make sure their regrettable history is not forgotten by putting up markers where Jews were forced out of the homes, and in the classroom where every child learns of the history. I would like to see the US adopt this humanitarian effort by putting up markers to remember those who lived on the land before Europeans came, and also where those who lived on this land but came from Mexico before the US took control of the land through war. Our schools should teach our history and its effect on others. If the whole world acknowledged their wrongs and how their wrongs affected others, we might have a better human experience on this planet and change our consciousness in an important way.

I am not sure our borders should be open to everyone. Our liberty depends very much on a shared culture, and while others may enter the US temporarily they are required to take a test for citizenship if they want to stay. While anyone educated in our school system should be able to pass the test for citizenship, and that education would make the children, who have been educated, citizens regardless of where their parents came from. What makes a person a desirable citizen is an education for citizenship. Until a person has this education, a person's stay needs to be limited.

However, humanitarian needs must be met by civilizations capable of doing so. The US has a legal process for this, and those who want to enter the country and whose lives are threatened in the country of origin, should be cared for in refugee camps until the process is completed.