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to educational resources, but to provide an educational

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environment that will free a child's potentialities for

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learning from the inner qualities imposed upon him by the

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accident of birth into one or another home and social

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environment.

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I think that Delegate Wheatley has indicated

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that the Majority has already fallen back from its position

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supporting a mandatory language in this section. This

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would be the least that would be acceptable to the Minority,

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in view of the impressive definition and the lack of any

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guidance from construction of other States. It is urged

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by the Minority that this language should be struck from

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the Constitution altogether.

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Now, Section 3, regarding the school fund,

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perhaps no more need be said because Delegate Wheatley

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has apparently conceded that this provision is no longer

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needed and will be struck by consent.

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Sections 4 and 5 really contain the heart of the

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statutory structure of education as it now exists in

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Maryland in Article 77. What has been done is that the

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statutory structure has been elevated from the statute