{"id":23039,"date":"2012-09-04T16:17:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T16:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/laphamsquarterly-1818-from-thomas-jeffersons\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T21:45:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T04:45:22","slug":"laphamsquarterly-1818-from-thomas-jeffersons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/laphamsquarterly-1818-from-thomas-jeffersons\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-23039 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/laphamsquarterly-1818-from-thomas-jeffersons\/attachment\/23040\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_m9u1q8TWQc1qcl7wao1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/laphamsquarterly.tumblr.com\/post\/30873006335\/1818-from-thomas-jeffersons-commissioners\">laphamsquarterly<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>1818:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.laphamsquarterly.org\/voices-in-time\/thomas-jefferson-opens-a-school.php\">From Thomas Jefferson\u2019s commissioner\u2019s report for the University of Virginia:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The objects of this primary education determine its character and limits. These objects would be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To give to every citizen the information he needs for the transaction of his own business.<\/li>\n<li>To enable him to calculate for himself, and to express and preserve his ideas, his contracts, and accounts in writing.<\/li>\n<li>To improve, by reading, his morals and faculties.<\/li>\n<li>To understand his duties to his neighbors and country, and to discharge with competence the functions confided to him by either.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>And, in general, to observe with intelligence and faithfulness all the social relations under which he shall be placed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2012: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tfn.org\/site\/DocServer\/2012-Platform-Final.pdf?docID=3201\">From the education platform of the Republican Party of Texas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Knowledge-Based Education<\/strong> \u2013 We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values\u00a0clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based\u00a0Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging\u00a0the student\u2019s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>laphamsquarterly: 1818:\u00a0From Thomas Jefferson\u2019s commissioner\u2019s report for the University of Virginia: The objects of this primary education determine its character and limits. These objects would be: To give to every citizen the information he needs for the transaction of his own business. 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