Jefferson would disagree with you as would most of the founders of the country who believed that an educated populace was vital to a functioning democratic republic.
Jefferson would disagree with you as would most of the founders of the country who believed that an educated populace was vital to a functioning democratic republic.
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They would be **appalled** to see our monstrosity of government owned and run K-12 schooling!
They likely believed that citizens should be fed as well, but we don’t have government owned and run farms and grocery stores. I doubt that our Founding Fathers would have supported that.
Jefferson would disagree, but found no support among the other founding fathers for government schools.
Franklin didn’t found a government school system. He founded a private college, the University of Pennsylvania.