What will be the retribution of the wealthy individual [for his support of general education]? /) The peopling of his neighborhood with honest, useful and enlightened citizens. 2) When his own descendants become poor, which they generally do within three generations, their children will be educated by the then rich . . . and thus give them a chance of rising again.
—Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Joseph Cabell, 1818
Well before the birth of the Republic, wealthy individuals gave generously to public education. This week, for reasons that probably are closer to...
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