"So now we know that as early as 1829, the socialists had adopted covert techniques to further their ends in the United States, techniques that they continued to use for decades."
Converting the more widespread and popular private system of education to a public, i.e., Statist school system was key...
"Indeed, public education was to become the socialists' primary instrument for promoting socialism."
"In the long run, it would have been more economical for the towns to pay for the tuition of poor children to attend private schools than for the towns to maintain free schools. So the problem was never one of economics; it was, from the very beginning, philosophical."
