...century. George Washington always cherished a deep interest in the matter of education. He says: " Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of...in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours, it is proportionally essential."...

...century. George Washington always cherished a deep interest in the matter of education. He says: " Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of...in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours, it is proportionally essential,"...

...me in opinion," he said in a speech to both houses of Congress in 1790, "that there is nothing that can better deserve your patronage than the promotion...Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of happiness." Instruction has become, under the Republic, obligatory for all in France, and is given...

...Congress would establish in the Federal city. In his address to Congress on January 8, 1790, he said: There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage...Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of happiness * * *. Whether this desirable object will be best promoted by affording aids to seminaries...

...revealed his interest in education in his first annual address to Congress in the following words: "Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with...in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours it is proportionably essential....

...revealed his interest in education in his first annual address to Congress in the following words : "Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with...in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours ft is proportionably essential....

...opportunity. I have a quotation from George Washington in his first address to> Congress, in which he said: Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me...every country the surest basis of public happiness. Whether this desirable object will be best promoted by affording aids to seminaries of learning already...

...abroad, as to the exertions of skill and genius in producing them at home. * * * Nor am I less persuaded that there is nothing which can better deserve your...patronage than the promotion of science and literature." Jefferson said: "Certainly an inventor ought to be allowed a right to the benefit of his invention...

...support of free public education. Washington, in his first message to Congress, stated the following : "Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with...In which the measures of Government receive their Impressions so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours it is proportionately essential....

...support, of free public education. Washington, in his flrst message to Congress, stated the following : "Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion that there is nothing which can lietter deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every...