Kelsey Grammer Urges US Education Overhaul, Citing 56 Founders as America Nears 250th Anniversary
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Updated · Fox News · Jul 22
Kelsey Grammer Urges US Education Overhaul, Citing 56 Founders as America Nears 250th Anniversary
1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 22
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Kelsey Grammer said Americans who do not learn the nation’s founding history can be “controlled,” using a Tuesday appearance on “Planet Tyrus” to press for a broad overhaul of US education.
The actor tied that warning to what he called a dismissive view of the Founding Fathers, arguing figures such as Thomas Jefferson—33 when he wrote the Declaration of Independence—should be taught for their ideas, not mocked as “old White guys in wigs.”
Grammer said the Revolution was driven by thought and aspiration rather than identity, and described the founders’ project as an unfinished effort to build “a more perfect union.”
His comments come as he promotes founding-era projects including the film “Young Washington” and Fox Nation’s 6-episode “The Patriot War” ahead of the United States’ 250th anniversary.