EZEKIEL W. CULLEN


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Ezekiel W. Cullen

Intelligence is the only true aristocracy in a government like ours and the improved and educated mind has and will ever triumph over the ignorant uneducated mind
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Historically, for many Americans the educated were considered as elite in a very positive sense. Other people at other times saw educated elites as dangerous to religion and conservatism. Here the educate are described as an “aristocracy” and the only aristocracy that was acceptable and desirable

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Ezekiel W. Cullen was a justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas and served as a congressman of the Republic of Texas. While in the Third Congress of the republic as chairman of the education committee, he also sponsored the "Cullen Act", which started land endowments for schools and universities. The act effectively lay the basis for an eventual state public school system.