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Educational Positions of Jefferson and Coram


            Education is the most lasting cultural effect on any culture. When the Americas were discovered and enough colonization had been spread, education became more of a serious topic. Two people in particular bad it happen and had very strong view points and opinions upon education. These two people are Thomas Jefferson and Robert Coram. They had similar but differing educational positions which could be debated on which one would be more democratic.
             Thomas Jefferson believed that "public education would serve as the very keystone of our arch of government" (T261). At one point in Jefferson's life, he devised a plan for public education. Each Colony would have a primary school open to all that could afford it. Each year the best student of each school would be sent to a grade-school, which there was to be twenty of situated in numerous parts of the state. They would be taught there one or two years, depending on the results shown. Then all but one would be dismissed, who would go on to continue three years. Twenty of the best students will be set aside from the poor annually. At the end of three years, the best ten out of the twenty were to be sent to college, and the rest were sent out into life. In other words, the smartest child in the class whose parents could not afford to send their child to a higher school would then have their child sent to that school for a lower fee to that family.
             In 1779, Jefferson introduced his "bill for the more general diffusion of knowledge" in the Virginia assembly. This included a plan for the state to fund elementary schools, for students that showed more promise to continue an education, and for state universities. At first schooling was only available for boys that could afford it. This left out Women, Blacks, and Native Americans, but Jefferson believed in the Republican woman; women were soon able to be school to a certain level that allowed them to be a good mother to educate their children.


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