![]() ![]() Earl Taylor, Principal, Heritage Academy, Charter High School It may take a whole generation to throw off the bad habits, but let's get started. Allison, Jefferson Biographer, Author of The Real Thomas JeffersonĪs a high school teacher and administrator, I have yearned for a different approach to learning: and Oliver Demille shows us how education should really take place - with classics and mentors, where students must dig it out for themselves with a little guidance. If you're willing to find out what that blessing will cost you and your children, read this book -Andrew M. But he does show us, honestly and authoritatively, the price we must pay to remain a free people. It's not a quick or painless perscription, and Oliver DeMille doesn't sugar-coat it. A Thomas Jefferson Education tells us how to see, in our own day, exactly what the Founders saw - and thus how to safeguard and build upon what they created. The loss of that knowledge poses a 'clear and present danger' to our generation, because liberty cannot perpetuate itself. ![]() What we have not understood, however, is the rigorous educational experience that gave them such remarkable vision. We've known for a long time that it was the extraordinary, far-reaching vision of America's founding fathers that produced the freest and most powerful nation on earth. ![]()
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