...be an American education for all of the citizens of our democracy. As Thomas Jefferson once wrote, "Every government degenerates when trusted to the...therefore, are its only safe depositories. And to render them safe their minds must be improved." These letters are about the core of America. What do we want...

...every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy... Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers...themselves therefore are its only safe depositories" (Jefferson, 1984, p. 274). Jefferson continues, "I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power...

...knowing it, to defeat its views. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover,...wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve. Potential enemies of freedom will come not only from abroad, Jefferson warns, or from the restless...

...mind controls the future. Totally Tubular Butterfly 2002 "Every government degenerates when tmsted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe repositories. " M COMPANY PICNIC - Thomas Jefferson, 1 781 "Go on, my f/ear Americans, whip your horses...

...more willing than most of his compatriots to trust in popular over elite opinion. He declared that "every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The 13Joseph J. Ellis, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (New York, 1996), p. 54. "Hofstadter,...

...democracies is hardly new; in introducing his education bill, US President Thomas Jefferson wrote that "every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone" (in Hirsch 1996, 18). In this context, journalist Jonathan Rauch (1993) has provided a useful classification...

...is no delegating a trust by halves. To Alexander Donald, Philadelphia, November 25, 1790 Democracy Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers...themselves therefore are its only safe depositories. Notes on the State of Virginia, 1782 It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but...

...individual's. " Every government degenerates," Thomas Jefferson wrote in his Notes on Virginia in 1785, " when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are therefore its only depositaries. And to render even them safe, their minds must be improved to...

...runs contrary to the intent of education as expressed by Dewey, Freire, and even Thomas Jefferson: Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers...render even them safe, their minds must be improved (Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia. 1782. in Leicester-Ford, 1893) The question that the World Bank's...

...wrote, "Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. And to render even...their minds must be improved to a certain degree" (1853, 157). More recently but in the same vein, Wolf and Macedo observe: Political communities have...