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“you cannot expect to develop your resources without a general system of popular education; it is the lever to all permanent improvement.”
“Intelligent laborers,” added another Yankee businessman in 1853 as if in echo of British visitors, “can add much more to the capital employed in a business than those who are ignorant.”
The philosopher of republicanism, Thomas Jefferson, had defined the essence of liberty as independence, which required the ownership of productive property. A man dependent on others for a living could never be truly free, nor could a dependent class constitute the basis of a republican government.
