This came tossed over our transom window this morning, sent from The Patriot Post's e-mail service, the Founders' Quote Daily:
"Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties, and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates... to cherish the interest of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them."
-- John Adams (Thoughts on Government, 1776)
Interesting quote from Adams. A good legislative concern for the seminaries of literature and science would also include, for the founders, the popular government taking an interest in the curriculum being taught there. No one ever erected a wall of seperation between the government and the colleges and universities...
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