Extract from Thomas Jefferson to John Banister

Paris Oct. 15. 1785.

what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil History; Ethics.

PrC (DLC). Published in PTJ, 8:635–37.
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