Operation Headstart programs that Mr. Gee described were seen by many of you as a challenge to your own commitment to the JudeoChristian ideal which is such a basic part of our democratic way of life. namely. "I am my brothers keeper." One group recognized that the American system had disproved the Marxian doctrine of class struggle to resolve poverty. It was mentioned that in our way of life. education has mediated class differencesyesterdays immigrant can bridge social and economic class lines through education. It was seen that class struggle could be resolved through education. that social mobility paralleled the availability of learning opportunities. that the war on poverty was really a war for learning * * * and there was Socratic wisdom in the youth who asked. "If communism appeals to the poor. why dont we give the underdeveloped countries more schools and more teachers instead of guns and generals?" There was no discomfort with integration. there was a mature wisdom in your recognition that prejudice is learned and the antidote is experience. knowledge. and familiarity. Most of you were impatient with a world that condoned a society in which the minority child is treated as a secondrate citizen and then is compelled by subtle pyschological pressure to live up to this inferior role.
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