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Ataturk as part of his radical reforms elevated secular teachers to a very high social status and moved science and engineering into the curriculum over the objections of traditionalists and Islamic fundamentalists, and he did this in an overwhelmingly Muslim country.
Charles I, Charles the Great. By putting these ideas into the Frankish legal system Charlemagne established the basis of the free public school system, but used the Roman Catholic clerics to do the teaching as they were de facto the only educated group who could teach. This capitulary later was referred to as Charlemagne’s “Charter of Modern Thought”.
Her call for education for personal responsibility is a real shock to many conservatives who identify Mrs. Roosevelt with the liberal left. But she made this a basic component of her belief structure and the Roosevelt Administration in 1942—long before it ever became part of the conservative program.