Thomas Jefferson And Benjamin Franklin's In Defense Of A Liberal Education
For my Concurrent English class we are reading your book, In Defense of a Liberal Education. In chapter four you address the story of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin and their educational journeys. Franklin only received two years of education and then learned his craftsman skills in an apprenticeship. Jefferson posed the Virginia plan at the Constitutional Convention, he stressed that education is the key to his plan.
Both shared the view that education makes a way to ensure a new republic, where nothing should stand in the way.
Jefferson believed that when it came to education the poor and the rich should have equal access to a good education. Education should be an access to all if we want America to rise together, united.
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