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Justice Stephen Breyer on the Importance of Civics Education

We the People

CHAPTER

The Importance of Deliberation and Compromise

I said that America's public schools are the nurseries of democracy. You will learn how this country works here in this building and you will learn how the country works there. It is indeed a nursery of democracy. And then we've got to talk about what happened over there. One thing that happened over there was deliberation and compromise. I learned about those values from Senator Kennedy. What did your experience in the Senate tell you about the importance of deliberation and compromises as the key to success and democracy? No. Well, I did where I worked with, I talked most of my career was primarily as a teacher but then I became a judge. Then before that I worked for Senator Ted

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