THOMAS JEFFERSON ON EDUCATION

Thomas Jefferson was the influential leader behind the Independence of Declaration who championed liberty and democratic values thorough intelligent citizens in the United States.
Jefferson received his education from The William and Mary College where he surrounded himself with important and intelligent men such as William Small of Scotland a professor of Math and Philosophy also with George Wythe a lawyer and Governor Fauquier. He learned much from these men and were influential to him. He learned principals of philosophy and politics and remained friends even after graduation and worked under Wythe. He was honored several times by learned societies. He was elected president of the Philosophical Society. Received honorary degree form Yale in 1786 From Hartford and Brown in 1787 and from Princeton in 1791.1

Thomas Jefferson is remembered for being Americas free thinker. He believed that through education one would achieve true liberty and freedom. His ideas on education would lea...