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school boards on all levels composed of fellow citizens

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who are not on the one hand professional educators and

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who can thereby feel free to criticize and promote the

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programs in the schools and on the other hand not being

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relegated to be professional politicians responsible for

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all areas of government, they can freely state the needs

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of education.

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I close with the final quote from the Eisen-

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hower committee from the Efficiency of Freedom again,

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"When freedom of education degenerates into indoctrina-

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tion it is no longer education at all. A school estab-

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lished as the center of indoctrination becomes a party

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for political institutions, subject to the capricious

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whims of those in power. Teaching and learning are

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smothered and creative thought cannot flourish."

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For this reason the majority believes it has

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attempted to preserve in its recommendations that system

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which has proven itself through the years, that system

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which has given Maryland a state relatively free compared

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to any other country of charges of political intervention.

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DELEGATE CLARK: There is now a period of 15