Multiple Choice
The notion that a key purpose of education would be to "inform" and make society "safe" stems from the idea that
A) the lower classes were intellectually unready for the responsibility of voting.
B) farmers were too geographically disconnected from urban centers to make informed choices.
C) the Irish Catholics were more loyal to the Pope than to independent self-government.
D) the lower classes were intellectually unready for the responsibility of voting and that the Irish Catholics were more loyal to the Pope than to independent self-government.
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