Happy Birthday TJ

I have always been a fan of Thomas Jefferson and today is his Birthday.  So, I will offer up some words of wisdom from the founding father.

In arguing for a tax to support public education in a time when education was largely private and only available to the wealthy, Jefferson argued that public education would ensure that the upper classes would not overthrow American democracy and create a class system to the detriment of the working classes.  And so he wrote to a friend;

"If you think that education is expensive, try ignorance."

The issues today are different, but there is still a worthwhile warning in the statement.

T.S. Hall