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The illimitable freedom of the human mind : Thomas Jefferson's idea of a university / Andrew J O'Shaughnessy.

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ISBN:
  • 9780813946498
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  • LD5678 .I455 2021
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Contents:
Enlighten the people -- My single anxiety in the world -- We shall have every religious man in Virginia against us -- The academical village -- Useful knowledge -- A wall of separation -- This deplorable entanglement -- Idle ramblers incapable of application -- This Athenaeum.
Subject: "The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind: Thomas Jefferson's Idea of a University is an accounting of Jefferson creating the University of Virginia. Using a biographical approach, this book shows that his vision did much to anticipate the modern university and that it was influential in the development of American higher education. Furthermore, the university distinguishes Jefferson as an advocate of a public education system"--
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Feast of reason -- Enlighten the people -- My single anxiety in the world -- We shall have every religious man in Virginia against us -- The academical village -- Useful knowledge -- A wall of separation -- This deplorable entanglement -- Idle ramblers incapable of application -- This Athenaeum.

"The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind: Thomas Jefferson's Idea of a University is an accounting of Jefferson creating the University of Virginia. Using a biographical approach, this book shows that his vision did much to anticipate the modern university and that it was influential in the development of American higher education. Furthermore, the university distinguishes Jefferson as an advocate of a public education system"--

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