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Graham's basic point appears to be that the pockets of excellence in institutions of universal public education should as far as possible be duplicated in every school in the country. The sad truth is that, all too often, excellence in elementary and secondary public education is predicated of neighborhood affluence or an extraordinary but isolated institutional programs of various configurations. Graham is hardly against excellence in education. But more than excellence itself, she wants to enlarge access to excellence in public education, not by demanding specific measures of achievements but rather by centering the educational process and environment it on students, focusing less on institutional, faculty, or even curriculum-specific concerns than on "the attainment of a set of skills, knowledge, and values that encourage one to learn on one's own, to participate fully in the society, and to be a competent

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ve assessment of communitarian sociological analysis that Graham associates with Bellah in .Habits of the Heart. and that both she and Bellah see as having become a nonstarter in the modern period. What begins to emerge as well in Mann's discussion is a determination to put the resources of the state behind the effort to educate the public, as a matter of government policy, and more, as a matter of secular government policy. As Mann writes: Amongst any people, sufficiently advanced in intelligence, to perceive, that hereditary opinions on religious subjects are ot always coincident with truth, it cannot be overlooked, that the tendency of the private school system is to assimilate our modes of education to those of England, where churchmen and dissenters . . . maintain separate schools, in which children are taught, from their tenderest years to wield the sword of polemics with fatal dexterity; and where the gospel . . . is converted into . . . social, interminable welfare. Of such disastrous consequences, there is but one remedy and one preventive. it is the elevation of the common schools (Mann, 1957, p. 33). This statement connects Mann to Jefferson's authorship of the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom and his wish for a
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