1From Thomas Jefferson to John Banister, Jr., 15 October 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
...it does not offer the 1st. and 3d. of the advantages of Rome. But why send an American youth to Europe for education? What are the objects of an useful American education? Classical knowlege, modern languages and chiefly French, Spanish, and Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil History; Ethics. In Natural philosophy I mean to include Chemistry and Agriculture,...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Smith, 8 September 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
...I knew him (myself) well qualified—But the application came to me, after the period when I Concieved the Officers were Selected—I therefore declined Naming him—Mr. Dent’s Connections are very respectable, his Education Classical, his Conduct thro: life honorable to himself—If a Vacancy should offer at N. Orleans,—permit me to say that the Public will be well served by him.—his politicks...
3Jason Chamberlain to Thomas Jefferson, 30 November 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
education; classical [index entry]
4Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 2 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
education; classical [index entry]
5Jerman Baker to Thomas Jefferson, 13 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
education; classical [index entry]
6Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 1 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
education; classical [index entry]
7Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 19 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
education; classical [index entry]
8Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 30 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
education; classical [index entry]
9Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 6 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
education; classical [index entry]
10Thomas Jefferson to Louis H. Girardin, 31 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
education; classical [index entry]