ght for the Day: John Adams on Education // Steven Hayward

David Adams, with advice fitting to public education at the moment:

It ought to be your care, and my very own, to elevate the minds of our own children and exalt their particular courage; to accelerate in addition to animate their industry in addition to activity; to excite within them a habitual contempt regarding meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and a great ambition to excel in each capacity, faculty, and through. If we suffer their minds to be able to grovel and creep inside infancy, they will grovel almost all their lives.

Just like Joe Biden may

Palinode: This Adams quote presented without the input or agreement of Richard Samuelson.