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Many of the first Settlers of these Provinces were Men who had received a good Education in Europe, and to their Wisdom and good Management we owe much of our present Prosperity. But their hands were full, and they could not do all Things. The present Race are not thought to be generally of equal Ability: For though the American Youth are allow’d not to want Capacity; yet the best Capacities require Cultivation, it being truly with them, as with the best Ground, which unless well tilled and sowed, with profitable Seed, produces only ranker Weeds.
–Benjamin Franklin on The Pennsylvania Academy
Education was much on the mind of the Founders. Back in July, we asked what kind of education would be necessary for a modern citizen to take the Declaration of Independence seriously. This month, we’re asking what kind of education produced the people who wrote it.
As Franklin notes, many early American settlers and many of the Founders essentially imported a sophisticated European education with them. Others, like Franklin, were primarily self -educated. The primacy of print culture in colonial and Revolutionary America meant that the Founders and their fellows were, by and large, voracious readers and bibliophiles, constantly improving their knowledge of history, theology, and politics, as well as the precision and beauty of their writing style.
That education, argues David Womersley in this month’s lead essay, may have led to and supported an anti-imperial thread in the period that features in the trio of defining works published in 1776: The Declaration; Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, and Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Our three essayists on selected material from Jack Greene’s Pamphlet Debate on the American Question in Great Britain approach this month’s set of featured pamphlets from the perspective of education as well. What kind of education did the pamphlet writers have? How were they trying to educate readers?
Explore all this and more as you further your own education this month at A Call to Liberty.
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After you read David Womersley’s essay, check our this month’s three essays on selections from Jack Greene’s collection of Revolutionary-era pamphlets exploring themes related to the content of colonial education, how religious belief shaped schooling, and the role classical learning played in the Founders’ worldview. Alongside these, we present podcasts, essays, and other material from 澳洲幸运5开奖官网开奖.
Countdown to the Declaration
New material every month as we explore the Declaration's past, present, and future.
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Equality
Anything But Compromising
Writing a Declaration that could secure support required compromises and negotiations: How did these compromises chart the course of, or delay the recognition of equality for coming generations?
Political Institutions
Republican Government after the Digital Revolution
Does technology fundamentally alter the basis for representative government? Does it give us cause to reconsider the principles of the Declaration?
Philosophy & Theology
Against Authority
How important are religious and Enlightenment ideas to the concepts in the Declaration? Are these influences necessarily in conflict?
Political Economy
Economic Wisdom for Tumultuous Times
Why do we find ourselves refighting the same debates between open markets and mercantilism that preoccupied the 18th century?
Education
Educational Experience and the Challenge to Empire
What in the Founders’ education prepared them to be able to craft the Declaration? To what degree did it challenge the ideals of empire?
Find the full list of months, including archived and upcoming themes, on our Countdown page.
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