 | Kenneth R. Bowling, Donald R. Kennon - 2005 - 238 pages
...(Chapel Hill, 1980), pp. 14—15, 46. 28 Adams, Jeffersonian Principles and Hamiltonian Principles, p. 9. think by far the most important bill in our whole...devised, for the preservation of freedom and happiness." 30 person's Commitment to Democracy Thomas Jefferson thought that when free men were well educated,... | |
 | Ikujirō Nonaka - 2005 - 482 pages
...the promised fruit was intangible, in the realm of nonmaterial values. It stressed the importance of "the diffusion of knowledge among the people. No other...devised, for the preservation of freedom and happiness."* In making this 134 statement, Jefferson no doubt was thinking of the types of knowledge that may qualify... | |
 | David R. Hiley - 2006
...Wythe, written from Paris in 1786, Jefferson justified his commitment to public education this way: I think by far the most important bill in our whole...preservation of freedom, and happiness. If any body thinks Kings, nobles, or priests are good conservators of the public happiness, send them here. It is the... | |
 | John P. Kaminski - 2005 - 100 pages
...Other children could continue their education, but without public support. Jefferson told Wythe that "by far the most important bill in our whole code...devised, for the preservation of freedom and happiness."" Neither Jefferson nor Wythe could get the educational reforms adopted. Support for comprehensive public... | |
 | Walter F. Murphy - 2007 - 588 pages
...begin the political education of future generations. "I think," Thomas Jefferson wrote to a friend, "by far the most important bill in our whole code...foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom. . . . Preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the law for educating... | |
 | Robert B. Louden Professor of Philosophy University of Southern Maine - 2007 - 340 pages
...is to be effected (Writings, 1388). And in his letter to George Wythe of August 13, 1786, he states, "I think by far the most important bill in our whole...that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. . . . Preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance: establish & improve the law for educating the... | |
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I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness. 
