Thomas Jefferson's Views On Education

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Thomas Jefferson, best known as the great lyricist of American Democracy and also known as the , was a very educated man who understood the power and importance of education. He knew that freedom depended and came from a well-built form of self-government. And that the well-built form which will have to be a strong cultivation of self-reliance, courage, responsibility, and moderation. As such he knew that to get that strong cultivation will only come about if the nation’s people had education. Education will have contributed both the knowledge and virtues that form a self-governing citizen. An example of how strongly, Jefferson believed in the power of education could be found in Virginia, when he proposed a bill in which he wanted free