Educational Quotes

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what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil… — Thomas Jefferson
I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure… — Thomas Jefferson
preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people. — Thomas Jefferson
besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other. — Thomas Jefferson
ours are the only farmers who can read Homer — Thomas Jefferson
music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui. — Thomas Jefferson
Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country — Thomas Jefferson
the study of the law is useful in a variety of points of view. it qualifies a man to be useful to himself, to his… — Thomas Jefferson
I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances. — Thomas Jefferson
the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind — Thomas Jefferson
we defer therefore till this time twelve month to avail ourselves of the instruction of that place, and particularly of your kindness in the two… — Thomas Jefferson
letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation. — Thomas Jefferson
in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses of lectures, and… — Thomas Jefferson
the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to… — Thomas Jefferson
I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man. — 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… — Thomas Jefferson
I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day,… — Thomas Jefferson
for the present we may groupe the sciences into Professorships as follows, subject however to be changed according to the qualifications of the persons we… — Thomas Jefferson
this interesting subject, which, if the condition of man is to be progressively ameliorated, as we fondly hope and believe, is to be the chief… — Thomas Jefferson
this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be adopted at all by our… — Thomas Jefferson

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