TOO MUCH for an 11 year old?
With respect to the distribution of your time the following is what I should approve. from 8. to 10 o’clock practise music. from 10. to 1. dance one day and draw another from 1. to 2. draw on the day...
View ArticleWhat would turn you into a wolf?
Cherish therefore the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public...
View ArticleAre you too old to teach?
A part of my occupation, and by no means the least pleasing, is the direction of the studies of such young men as ask it. They place themselves in the neighboring village [Charlottesville], and have...
View ArticleEducate GIRLS, too? And at PUBLIC expense?!
About 20. years ago, I drew a bill for our legislature, which proposed to lay off every county into hundreds or townships of 5. or 6. miles square, in the centre of each of which was to be a free...
View ArticleTeach! Teach! Teach! Teach! Teach!
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. To...
View ArticleCan stupid people write wise laws?
… it is generally true that that people will be happiest whose laws are best, and are best administered, and that laws will be wisely formed, and honestly administered, in proportion as those who form...
View ArticleWhat is the best way to educate everyone?
… concerning the College of Wm. & Mary … [I] prepared three bills for the Revisal, proposing three distinct grades of education, reaching all classes. 1. Elementary schools for all children...
View ArticleGive him freedom and watch him closely!
J. Randolph now proceeds to Richmond in order to enter at mr Girardin’s academy … through a course of mathematics & Natural philosophy. the annual charges … 67. D. [$67] … [pay from] my account,...
View ArticleOld McDonald had a farm. Part 1 of 2
On this farm we proposed to assemble the following establishments. 1. [a school for] … the care & instruction of Indian girls in carding, spinning, weaving, sewing, & the other houshold arts …...
View ArticleOld McDonald had a farm. Part 2 of 2
… whenever the Indians come to Detroit on trade or other business, they encamp on or about this farm. this would give them opportunities of seeing their sons & daughters, & their advancement in...
View ArticleTHIS is in MY wheelhouse!
…[I have] been elected by the city council a trustee for the public schools to be established at Washington & by the trustees to preside at their board … sincerely believing that knolege promotes...
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