High School Reading Grades 11 12 Quiz
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From an address on public education, 1852 (original composition):
The common school is not, as some suppose, merely an instrument for imparting letters and figures to the young. It is the great equalizer of the conditions of men—the balance-wheel of the social machinery. Wherever the common school flourishes, there arises a citizenry capable of self-government; wherever it languishes, there follow ignorance, faction, and the slow decay of republican virtue. Let the objector who resents the tax that supports these schools consider what he would pay, in prisons and almshouses, were the schools abolished. The dollar he grudges to the teacher he must render tenfold to the jailer.
Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the reasoning in the passage?
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