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Suppose he doesn't know? Suppose he is well-intentioned,

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but doesn't know what to do?

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Frankly, I think this. I think we must let

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the people come in and express themselves, and then

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finally, I remember, I think it was a day or two after

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I was appointed State Superintendent of Schools,

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Governor O'Conner called me down and said, I want to

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tell you, first of all, about a lesson I learned inside

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of a couple of years that I've been here. He said, I

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thought when I became Governor all I had to do was, for

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the school people, was to give them the money they asked

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for to the best of my ability and to get it passed by

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the legislature and that would be the end of it, but,

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he said, I've learned one thing, that education cuts

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across every function of government and I went through,

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I went through the twenty-one, I believe, articles of

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the Constitution and education is in every one of them

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practically.

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I think, in this connection, we must recog-

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nize in some way in the Constitution and put restrictive

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powers in the operation of government for education,