Thomas Jefferson's Views on Public Education

school districts shall, in the years to come, co-operate in happy harmony in cherishing,-each in its respective sphere, the cause of true learning in the western hemisphere. In short, let all well-wishers of their country take something of the same praiseworthy interest in the education of youth as did Thomas Jefferson, and republican institutions may be expected to realize, even more than they do at the present day, a grand ideal of a noble destiny.

THE END.

INDEX.

Abolition, 217, 218, 224, 243, 266,
269, 271

Adams, C. F., 135; John, 12, 16, 24,
42, 171, 183, 346, 358; John Q.,

242

Africa, 366

Agriculture, study of, 195

Boulton, Matthew, 58

Books, forbidden, 14; on government,
for N. E., 166
Boutwell, 97

Botany, study of, 199
Brazier, 147

Breckenridge, Gen., 42, 124, 129
Bright, John, 294, 333
Bulls, 7, 137

Alabama, illiteracy in, 302; slave law, Bureau of Education, 31

299

Alliance, Holy, 28, 29

Burgoyne, 10

Almamon, Caliph, 149

Alumni, N. C. University, 103

Amendment to Constitution proposed

by Grant, 374

American state papers, 44

Apparatus, philosophical, 160

Arabic education, 150

Arago, 278

"Articles of Association," 215

Astronomy, 153

Austro-Hungary, 364

Cabell, J. C., 38, 124, 126, 129, 321
Cadiz, 16

Calhoun, 276

Calonne, 16

Calvin, 5

Cardinals, 89

Carr, 6

Carthagena, 13

Cayenne, emancipation in, 17, 19

Central America, 373

Central College, 38

Chadwick's estimate, IOI

Charlotteville, 40

Chase, 344

Chastellux, 251

Chemistry, 159

Chicago, 333

China, 313, 339, 366
Chiriqui Lagoon, 290
Cholera, 159

Church and State, in Spain, 28, 29;
alliance of, 107, 137, 176
Cincinnati, 333; society, 108
Civil, liberty, I, 173; defined, 162;
service, 85; abuses foreseen by
Jefferson, 338

Clarkson, 222

Clay, 5, 21

Clayton-Bulwer treaty, 293

Commission of Inquiry, 5; on Site for Educational, advantages of American

University, 40
Confucius, 340

statesmen, 45; amendment to Con-
stitution, 374, 375

Electricity, 69, 75, 77, 81, 96,154, 159
Elgin, Earl of, 87
Eliot, Pres., 138
Ellsworth, Miss, 80
Engineers, 104, 112, 194
English Bible, 9

English, language, 363; professors,
203

Erasmus, 140

Europe, languages, in, 365

Gladstone, 132, 333

Glasgow, 54

Graham, Mme., 17

Jacobins, 18
Jay, 13, 168, 218, 243

Grammar school in Albemarle Co., 37 Jefferson, on education and civil lib-

Gray, F. C., 275

Greece, 15

Greek and Latin, 133, 134, 135, 147
Greenock, 54; library, 65
Grocyn, 139
Guanaxuato, 6

Guatemala, 373

Ideal university, 131

Illiteracy, Guizot on, 33; in Italy, 89;
in Mass., 347; in United States in
1870-1880, 307; in United States,
361

Illiterate nations, 35, 346
Index expurgatorius, Spanish, 14
India, 365

Indians, and English language, 367;
in need of obligatory education, 367;
policy towards, 368, 369
Inquisition, 13, 14, 161
Inventions, 53, 68; money value of,
95, 99

Italian language, 130, 138
Iturbide, 25

erty, 12; to A. von Humboldt, 3;
on New Spain, 4, 7, 8; sketch of
Kosciuszko, 10; to Kosciuszko on
priestcraft in New Spain, 12; to
John Adams on slave trade, 16; to
Lafayette on constitution for France,
21, 22; to Lafayette on bigotry and
self-government, 23; to John Adams
on passive submission to kings and
priests, 25; to Lafayette on free
press, 28; to De Onis on education
as qualification for citizenship, 29;
requests Dupont de Nemours to pre-
pare a plan for national education,
30; enlightenment the true basis for
government, 31; ignorance and free-
dom incompatible, 35; signs bills for
appropriations for universities and
schools, 37; generosity to Central
College, 38; to Virginia Legislature
urging appropriations for the uni-
versity, 38, 39; rector of the uni-
versity, 41; urges the founding of a
university in Washington, 44; his
report on site for State university,
48; on advantages of well directed
education, 105; on the importance
of the sciences, 107; to Wythe on
ignorance and superstition, 113; on
the men needed for a republic, 114;
on primary schools, 124; his coad-
jutors in founding the university,
125; his hopes resting on the cause
of learning, 127; on Cabell's re-
tirement, 129; his fears for the
university, 129; his self-sacrificing
labors for the university, 131; on
broadening the basis of educational
establishments, 132; on electives,
133; on Greek and Latin, 134, 147;
to Brazier on the same, 147; on
mathematics, 149; on sciences, in
his Sixth Message, 156; interest in
chemistry, 157; on study of science
of government, 160; opposition to
public debts, 165; his interest in
study of history, 174 et seq., to John
Adams on courses of study, 183;
consults T. Cooper on plan for uni-

Jefferson (Continued).

versity, 184; consults Pictet on the
same, 185; his plan for transporting
the Univ. of Geneva to Virginia,
186; to Priestley on scheme for uni-
versity, 187; on technical instruc-
tion, 191, 193; on botany, 199; on
study of languages, 201; on English,
202; on physical culture, 203; wishes
to get English professors, 203; to
Roscoe on the same, 205; to Eve-
lyn Denizon, 207; Dunglison on,
208; unsectarian, 210; abhorrence
for slavery, 213; his essay on the
"Rights of Englishmen," 213-pro-
scribed, 214; draught of Declara-
tion, 214; on the king of England,
214; on importation of slaves, 216;
plan for educating the colored peo-
ple, 223; entertains Melbourn at
Monticello, 224; emancipation bill
of 1767, 243; inherits but never
buys slaves, 243; bill to exclude
slaves from Western territory, 244—
its failure, 244; on abolition in Vir-
ginia, 245; on colony at Muskin-
gum, 247; on influence of slavery,
249, 252; Coles to Jefferson, 255;
Jefferson to Coles, 256; to Banna-
ker, 267; to Holmes, 268; to Miss
Wright on abolition, 269; quoted
by Lincoln, 282; his provision for
education of colored people, 301;
to Washington on national instruc-
tion, 312; on local government in
N. E., 319; on schools and local
government, 320; and the Literary

Fund, 328; to Wyche on value of

Lafayette, 14, 16, 18, 21; Mme., 19
Lamps, see petroleum
Las Casas, 219
Latent heat, 55
Lawyers, 104, 112

Leland's "Jack Nips," 226
Lewis, S. S., 120

Libraries, 193, 206, 329, 331; Con-
gress, 336
Lieber, 162
Lima, 13
Linacre, 139

Lincoln, 249, 278, 281, 290, 291;
on reading the Bible, 310
Lincoln, Earl of, 87
Local government in N. E., 319, 360
Livingston, E., 209
Louisiana, purchase of, 30; slave law,
Locomotive, Watts', 67, 105
299; illiteracy in, 303; colored
population, 362

a library as educator, 331; offers his
own library to government, 336; re-
port of 1816 on public instruction,
343; proposes gratuitous instruction,
344; educational bill of 1817, 348;
on national education, 351; on de-
voting a portion of national revenue
to education, 352; suggests educa-
tional amendment to Constitution,
353; signs bills for universities in
Ohio and Tenn., 353; Jefferson
College, 354; signs bill for support
of common schools, 355; argues for
educational amendment in Va. con-
stitution, 358; to Monroe on spread McClellan, G. B., 286

Louis Philippe, 21
Louis XVI., 18; XVIII., 20
Lukens, 75
Luther, 104, 145

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