In response to Paula Prince's letter (Readers' Forum, June 20) regarding her belief that the Founding Fathers did not consider public education part of the foundation of our democracy, may I offer the following quotes from Thomas Jefferson:
"Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to, convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty." — Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787. Madison Version FE 4:480
"It is highly interesting to our country, and it is the duty of its functionaries, to provide that every citizen in it should receive an education proportioned to the condition and pursuits of his life." — Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, 1814. ME 19:213
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