If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed…

Thomas Jefferson
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If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government, than by the parents within each ward, it is a belief against all experience. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont, p.543
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