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School Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public…
- No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination.
- To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to…
- Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity
- If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government,…
- I... [proposed] three distinct grades of education, reaching all classes. 1. Elementary schools for all children generally, rich and poor. 2. Colleges for a middle…
- I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education, to enable every…
- To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
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