“if a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & never will be. the functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty & property of their constituents. there is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information. where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.” Thomas Jefferson to his friend Charles Yancey, January 6, 1816. https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-09-02-0209
The Educational Theory of Thomas Jefferson https://www.newfoundations.com/GALLERY/Jefferson.html
“Historians characterize Jeffersonian democracy as including the following ideal: All men have the right to be informed and thus to have a say in the government. The protection and expansion of human liberty was one of the chief goals of the Jeffersonians. They also reformed their respective state systems of education. They believed that their citizens had a right to an education no matter their circumstance or status in life”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffersonian_democracy#cite_note-21
“if a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & never will be. the functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty & property of their constituents. there is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information. where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.” Thomas Jefferson to his friend Charles Yancey, January 6, 1816. https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-09-02-0209
The Educational Theory of Thomas Jefferson https://www.newfoundations.com/GALLERY/Jefferson.html
“Historians characterize Jeffersonian democracy as including the following ideal: All men have the right to be informed and thus to have a say in the government. The protection and expansion of human liberty was one of the chief goals of the Jeffersonians. They also reformed their respective state systems of education. They believed that their citizens had a right to an education no matter their circumstance or status in life”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffersonian_democracy#cite_note-21