The Fundamentals of Democracy

Jefferson: Education and enlightenment were absolutely central to all their thinking. They believe in the absolute importance of educating the people. And that doesn't mean just teaching them arithmetic, it means teaching them how to think,. It's a system produces understanding and produces a reasonable action. That is the essence of democracy. So was you get mob rule, right?

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