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Thomas Jefferson: Papers and Biographies Collections, Hathi Trust Digital Library; Earliest known appearance in print: 20131.

It is a major contribution to our understanding of Thomas Jefferson’s career as an educational reformer and to the history of democratic self-government in Virginia.Millions of eBooks to Read InstantlyAn account of Jefferson's home state and university…A complex but fascinating story.In 1819 Jefferson’s intensive drive for state support of a new university succeeded. Thomas Jefferson's involvement with and support of education is best known through his founding of the University of Virginia, which he established in 1819 as a secular institution after he left the presidency of the United States.Jefferson believed that libraries and books were so integral to individual and institutional education that he designed the university around its library.
Discount offer available for first-time customers only.Madison Smartt Bell on Robert Stone, restless chronicler of physical and moral extremityMartin J. Sherwin: At his core, Jonathan Schell was a philosopherAlan Taylor: James Fenimore Cooper reveals “deeply hidden truths” about the American RevolutionMonique Truong: Lafacadio Hearn’s wandering life as a search for homeSo while we should examine the distorting power of slavery, and the failure of most of the founders to confront it, we should not do so simply to dismiss or demonize them. Devoted to the education of his granddaughters, he nevertheless accepted their subordination in a masculine culture. A man of “deft evasions” who was both courtly and withdrawn, Jefferson sought control of his family and state from his lofty perch at Monticello. Caught between the promise of a new nation of freedom and the reality of a declining slave society, Thomas Jefferson and his allies forged an institution at once intellectually innovative and socially conservative. Booklist ★ 2019-07-15 The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian enlightens us on the mindset of Colonial Virginia through Thomas Jefferson's drive to change the education system.

His intention was a university to educate the sons of Virginia’s wealthy planters, lawyers, and merchants, who might then democratize the state and in time rid it of slavery. Thomas Jefferson's Education was an eye opening account of the varied efforts of Thomas Jefferson to influence Virginia's post-revolutionary history. Alan Taylor’s extraordinary new book illuminates the limits of republican reform in a society built on slavery. But that interpretation misses the limits that he confronted in a Virginia society committed to many forms of inequality: class, race, and gender. We have such an ingrained cultural reflex to divide people into “good guys” and “bad guys” that it becomes virtually impossible to come up with a more nuanced understanding of the past, filled with the interplay of light and dark in institutions and individuals. An account of Jefferson's home state and university…A complex but fascinating story. It offers an incisive portrait of Thomas Jefferson set against a social fabric of planters in decline, enslaved black families torn apart by sales, and a hair-trigger code of male honor. Thomas Jefferson's views on education were in many ways provocative for his time period.

Never quite the egalitarian we wish him to be, he advocated emancipation but shrank from implementing it, entrusting that reform to the next generation. On the contrary, we should seek a sobering sense of how difficult it is for people in any time to do the right thing when it contradicts powerful economic interests and engrained prejudices. The original “Man of the People,” Thomas Jefferson, was born on April 13 in 1743. But the university’s students, having absorbed the traditional vices of the Virginia gentry, preferred to practice and defend them.

In the coming years, Virginia actually hardened its commitment to slavery.
We tend to take Jefferson’s ideas out of the context of his own time, to read him as a prophet of a more democratic education in the future. Thomas Jefferson’s Education traces the origins and abortive implementation of Jefferson’s strategy for establishing a democratized system of education in the Old Dominion, one that would cultivate “moral sense” in its future leaders.