More Is More | Emanuele Corso

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Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust

Feb. 10, 2015

When immigrants and refugees from Eastern and Southern Europe immigrated to the United States in the late 1800s and early 1930s, after they found work and could provide for a family, the education of their children became the first priority.

These people knew the value of education from experience and provided it sometimes at great sacrifice. In fact, they demanded it and insured that their children understood its importance.

All of these people had felt the inequality imposed by inherited wealth and property. The social capital of the ruling classes in Europe was an intolerable burden for the rest of society to bear and that’s why my grandparents and millions of other American’s grandparents and great-grandparents fled Italy, Poland, Ireland and nearly every other European country.

For these immigrants education was liberation, it was freedom, it was dignity, a path to a life as middle-class families. Enormous sacrifices were made to put kids through college and university where they became professionals in medicine, law, education, and science. It was the “New World” indeed. It was the embodiment of the “American Dream.”

Here we are a century and a half later facing a relentless political battle to deny that dream, to denigrate public schools, to destroy the education system that made attaining the dream possible. Empty arguments like third-grade retention are employed to mask the real intent of the so-called reformers.

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