by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 17, 2013 | Education, Founders, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.” Thomas...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 17, 2013 | Education, Founders, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“Now let us see what the present primary schools cost us, on the supposition that all the children of 10. 11. & 12. years old are, as they ought to be, at school: and, if they are not, so much the work is the system; for they will be untaught, and their...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 17, 2013 | Education, Founders, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day . . . . I believe it [human condition] susceptible of much improvement, and most of all, in matters of government and religion; and...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 17, 2013 | Education, Founders, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“If a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & never will be.” Thomas Jefferson letter to Charles Yancey, 1816 January 6.
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 17, 2013 | Education, Founders, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“No one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it’s effect towards supporting free & good government.” Thomas Jefferson letter to the Trustees of the Lottery for East Tennessee...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 17, 2013 | Education, Founders, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“…wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government…” Thomas Jefferson, letter to Richard Price, 1789 January 8.
