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I would begin where I think the Majority

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should have begun its report, with a discussion of equal

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educational opportunities. This is certainly the credo,

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I suppose of the Majority Report. Delegate Wheatley has

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attempted to indicate that this clause has no specific

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meaning, but should be looked forward to by the State as

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largely exhortatory language to lead education on; and he

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made the specific statement, and I jotted this down because

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I must take exception to it, that this does not mean free

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tuition to all people of the State at the higher education

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level and the graduate school level, and this idea was

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specifically rejected, as he said, by the Committee and

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that this was "the greatest misinterpretation of the

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Majority Report".

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I would like to read briefly from the Sunpapers

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article of November 10 entitled Equal Education Pushed In

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State, and this appeared the day after this section was

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adopted by the Majority of the Committee: In a general

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statement the Committee adopted a language requiring the

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General Assembly to provide equal educational opportunities

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for all residents of this State. The Committee members say