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“Education
is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments…It is
required in the performance of our most basic public responsibilities…It is
the very foundation of good citizenship. Today it is a principal instrument
in awakening the child to cultural values, in preparing him for later
professional training, and in helping him to adjust normally to his
environment. In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be
expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right
which must be made available to all on equal terms…To
separate them from others of similar age and qualifications…generates a
feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect
their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone…A sense of
inferiority affects the motivation of a child to learn. Segregation with the
sanction of law, therefore, has a tendency to [retard] the educational and
mental development of…children and to deprive them of some of the benefits
they would receive in a…integrated school system...We
conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of
"separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities
are inherently unequal.”[13] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_vs._Board_of_Education
- The_decision(Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote for the unanimous Court in Brown
v. Board of Education of Topeka:Oliver Brown et al. v. Board of
Education of Topeka et al. Citations: 347 U.S. 483; 74 S. Ct. 686; 98 L. Ed.
873; 1954 U.S. LEXIS 2094; 53 Ohio Op. 326; 38 A.L.R.2d 1180) |