•Special education offered more of a means to fit people for a livelihood than for anything else; to qualify him for a profession or pursuit, rather than to be a man. •Public tax support for those schools that were non-sectarian Protestant in orientation but not for schools that were Catholic. •Instead of schooling for religious and republican virtue, he was instituting a system of schooling for social control. •Minority groups had little active participation in the fundamental decision making about their education. •People had a right to be self governed, not ruled by the “tyranny of the majority”.