Benjamin+Franklin



Jefferson  had six objectives for primary education to bring about enlightenment and which highlighted what he hoped would make every person into a productive and informed voter:
 * 1) "To give every citizen the information he needs for the transaction of his own business;
 * 2) To enable him to calculate for himself, and to express and preserve his ideas, his contracts, and accounts, in writing;
 * 3) To improve, by reading, his morals and faculties;
 * 4) To understand his duties to his neighbors and country, and to discharge with competence the functions confided to him by either;
 * 5) To know his rights; to exercise with order and justice those he retains; to choose with discretion the fiduciary of those he delegates; and to notice their conduct with diligence, with candor, and judgment;
 * 6) And, in general, to observe with intelligence and faithfulness all the social relations under which he shall be placed."