[LS]

True, most Founders were "homeschooled," but almost all (as I showed in "What Would the Founders Say") supported local and state supported elementary schools. This was ensconced even BEFORE the Constitution in the Land Ordinance of 1785 that provided one section of federal government land to each state for a public school.

The Founders who were educated beyond elementary school overwhelmingly ended up in the private, religious colleges, which were all that existed, and about half studied divinity at one point. Their ideas about education did not focus so much who provided the education but in what was taught. ALL believed elementary schools should teach math, grammar, religion, and (as they said) a "patriotic history."

Dr. Benjamin Rush was among the leading proponents of the public education model, as was Madison.

[US Navy Vet]

“Dr. Benjamin Rush was among the leading proponents of the public education model, as was Madison.” HOWEVER niether one of them whould have appoved of the Prussian, Otto Von Bismark FECES that “Public” “Eduction(indoctrination)” has turned into.