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"... Jefferson composed his own epitaph, listing three achievements: author of the Declaration of Independence, author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, and father of the University of Virginia. He did not mention his two terms as president. Most people find that omission curious. I find it clarifying. Jefferson believed the university mattered more to the republic’s survival than anything he accomplished in office. ...
A republic whose citizens cannot reason, evaluate evidence, or resist manipulation is not genuinely self-governing—it is a republic in name only. “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization,” he wrote in 1816, “it expects what never was and never will be.” The university was not a cultural amenity or tool of job certification. It was the mechanism by which free government reproduces itself across generations. ..."
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