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The Right to be Ignorant

posted by Jordan J. Ballor on Wednesday, March 1, 2006

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“The First Amendment does not cover burping.” (from episode 2F22)

One of my favorite websites to check out on occasion is Professor Plum’s EducatioNation, and the first quote on the homepage is this from Thomas Jefferson: “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” [Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 1816]

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