Where does American Exceptionalism Come From?

Here is some insight concerning the failed Department of Education under Socialism from Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh.

Bruce

"The Americans I was meeting were proud that they had liberated Europe of fascist Italy and Germany, that they had put an end to the advancement of the Japanese Empire.
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Jimmy Carter signed into law The Department of Education Organization Act on October 17, 1979 thus dividing The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare into the Department of Education and The Department of Health and Human Services. The Department of Education began operating on May 16, 1980 and thus began the dumbing down of American education.
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Young people demand more and more from their country and feel entitled to basic needs that people used to get through hard work. Now they claim, it is their right. Everything that Americans used to earn for themselves is now expected from the federal government, a lazy cradle to grave existence, following the failed European model.
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It saddens me that, for the past two years, the American president has apologized for our exceptionalism as if it was a character flaw and shameful. I am very proud of it and I would like to think that this pioneer uniqueness of spirit, the envy of the world, still exists among Americans."