Question

Why did jefferson believe that education was the best way to create model americans?

Answer 1

Thomas Jefferson thought that education was the best way to form American models and examples to follow among other citizens of the rest of the world. It founded a different educational institution free of ecclesiastical doctrines where the students had specialties in different areas of studies, to improve the learning. Jefferson believed that through education a just and organized society could be maintained and that all citizens had the right to education. He promoted education through his thinking "Only a popular education can defend democracy" and "An ignorant people can not preserve their freedom".