"To give to every citizen the
information he needs for the transaction of his own business; To enable him to
calculate for himself, and to express and preserve his ideas, his contracts and
accounts, in writing; To improve, by reading, his morals and faculties; To
understand his duties to his neighbors and country, and to discharge with
competence the functions confided to him by either; 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; And, in general, to observe with intelligence and
faithfulness all the social relations under which he shall be placed."
--Thomas Jefferson, Report of the
Commissioners for the University of Virginia, 1818
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