...church. The court stated: "It is well to reassert that which Mr. Justice Frankfurter said in McCollum: 'The public school is at once the symbol of our democracy...the Constitution sought to keep strictly apart.... We renew our conviction that 'we have staked the very existence of our country on the faith that complete...

...education in American history is and should be — at the close of his concurring opinion he said this : The public school is at once the symbol of our democracy and the most I,ervasive means for promoting our common destiny. So spoke Justice Frankfurter in the McCottum case,...

...of teacher and pupil." 200. 333 US 203 (1948). SI A 1 1. I.DH.AI IU.\.-\L / /.VI At /.\ G ill . . . The public school is at once the symbol of our democracy and the most persuasive means for promoting our common destiny.*" In stbington School District v. Scfu'inpp. Mr....

...must keep scrupulously free from entanglement in the strife of sects." The public school he said was "at once the symbol of our democracy and the most pervasive means for promoting our common destiny."26 Justice Brennan for his part wrote as follows in support of the Warren Court's decision...

...terms.2 Schools were then the great hope. To Felix Frankfurter the public school was nothing less than "the symbol of our democracy and the most pervasive means for promoting our common destiny."3 Our schools, "the red brick PS on the city street and the red schoolhouse on the village...

...discrimination, it is an indication of an historic national priority. In the words of Justice Frankfurter: The public school is at once the symbol of our democracy...what the Constitution sought to keep strictly apart. McCollum v. Board of Education. 333 US 203, 231 (1948). Thank you. I will be happy to answer any questions....

...relation between Church and State speaks of a "wall of separation," not of a fine line easily overstepped. The public school is at once the symbol of our democracy...what the Constitution sought to keep strictly apart. We renew our conviction that "we have staked the very existence of our country on the faith that complete...

...discrimination, it is an indication of an historic national priority. In the words of Justice Frankfurter: The public school is at once the symbol of our democracy...fusing, what the Constitution sought to keep strictly apar*-- lon, 333 US 203, 231 (1948). ippjr to answer any questions. Mr. SCOTCH. Ms. Katz. STATEMENT...

...education in the United States? Justice Felix Frankfurter argued in McCollum v. Board of Education that: "The public school is at once the symbol of our democracy and the most pervasive means of promoting our common destiny." 1 l It is not surprising, therefore, that the public schools have...

...decades. As the Supreme Court recently explained in a 1987 ruling in a case called Edwards v. Aguillard, in "no activity of the State is it more vital to keep out divisive forces than in its schools." And schools surely do have a powerful interest in rising above religious and political contests, an...