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Founding Father Thomas Jefferson had strong opinions about the importance of public educationin the United States. He wrote, “I do most anxiously wish to see the highest degrees of educationgiven to the higher degrees of genius, and to all degrees of it, so much as may enable [students]to read and understand what is going on in the world, and to keep their part of it going on right:for nothing can keep it right but their own vigilant and distrustful superintendence” (qtd. in Berry144). In other words, Jefferson believed all citizens of a democracy should be educated so thatthey can understand “what is going on in the world” well enough to ask for and help makechanges as needed.Forward to 21st Century America:In a Time Magazine article published in May 2017, journalist Randi Weingarten claims thatPresident Trump has devalued public education, especially public high schools, and points outthat Trump’s choice for Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVoss, “has called public schools a‘dead end’” and is in favor of defunding public education in some ways.In a brief but coherent essay, apply Jefferson’s ideas on public education to those of ourleaders today (as described by Weingarten).Consider these questions as part of your response:Should the federal government continue to actively finance public education or should thefunding go to other areas?What are the benefits, or detractors, of a well-educated citizenry?Do you think a good education should be available to all people in democracy, regardless ofsocioeconomic status? Why?——————————————————————————————————————–Works CitedBerry, Wendell. The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture. San Francisco:Sierra Club Books, 1977.Weingarten, Randi. “AFT President: Betsy DeVos and Donald Trump Are DismantlingPublic Education.” Time Magazine, 3 May 2017,http://time.com/4765410/donald-trump-betsy-devos-a… education/.