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Sep 17Liked by Free Black Thought

Thank you for this article.

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Sep 17Liked by Free Black Thought

What a wonderful way for the students to start their day!

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Sep 18Liked by Free Black Thought

Such an important lesson (and one I stress to my children)!

Because if you instead convince people that they do not, in fact, "have the tools of self-betterment within themselves" (so nicely phrased!) it becomes self-fulfilling.

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Maybe we should do that in our government run schools. I may start doing that with my grandsons when they come to visit.

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We need more educators like you! Thank you for your efforts!

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Sep 18Liked by Free Black Thought

I have my students sing The Preamble ala School House Rock! 🎵

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Sep 17Liked by Free Black Thought

Well said!!!

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Sep 17Liked by Free Black Thought

Beautiful! I will pass this to teachers and lifelong learners. Thank you for reminding me that the Preamble is a living part of the Constitution, and it is the duty of every generation to honor it.

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But can they sing it, like those of us from Gen X can?

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Very worthy and necessary comments about our founding document and, it seems to me that it’s more than just leftist academics who are decrying or criticizing the Constitution. When you have a former President and nominee of a major party essentially declaring that the Constitution should be abolished or ignored it strikes me that some more attention by the good educator to the actual threats to our founding would be appropriate -

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