- Dec 2017
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We should be far too from the discouraging persuasion, that man is fixed, by the law of his nature, at a given point: that his improvement is a chimæra, and the hope delusive of rendering ourselves wiser, happier or better than our forefathers were. As well might it be urged that the wild & uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour & bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better: yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on the savage stock, producing what is most estimable both in kind & degree
This says that men are not completely bound by the laws of nature and that through education, man can change their future. If humans become educated they can improve and become better like how a chimæra can shape shift into other animals. It also compares man to a tree and how cultivating a tree can make a new tree that is better than it was before.
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It is supposed that such pavilions on an average of the larger & smaller will cost each about $5,000; each dormitory about $350, and Hotels of a single room for a Refectory, & two rooms for the tenant necessary for dieting the students will cost about $3.500 each.
It is interesting to see how little the pavilions and the dormitories costed back when the school was built. According to an inflation calculator, what cost $5000 in 1815 would cost $66418.63 in 2016, so the Pavilions were relativity cheap using today's prices. The dorms that were $350 would be $4690 which is basically how much first years pay to live in dorms.
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- Oct 2017
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the incalculable advantage of training up able counsellors to administer the affairs of our Country in all its departments, Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary, and to bear their proper share in the councils of Our National Government; nothing, more than education, adorning the prosperity, the power and the happiness of a nation.
I believe that Jefferson trying to help the nation as a whole by creating this University. His views of how an educated population is for the best of all the people and how an educated population allows for a stable and strong self government also show through here.
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- Sep 2017
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And how much more encouraging to the atchievements of science and improvement, is this, than the desponding view that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been, must ever be, and that to secure Ourselves where we are, we must tread with awfull reverence in the footsteps of Our fathers
This says that man through the use of science can improve themselves and society instead of accepting the world to be what it is and just following the footsteps of their predecessors. I highly believe in this as through the use and development of science and technology, human life can be improved such as the development of new medical techniques and vaccines allowing humans to stay for the most part disease free. The development of technology has allowed humans to change the world and I believe this is one of the goals of the university.
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To give to every citizen the information he needs for the transaction of his own business. To enable him to calculate for himself, and to express & preserve his ideas, his contracts & accounts in writing. To improve by reading, his morals and faculties. To understand his duties to his neighbours, & country, and to discharge with competence the functions confided to him by either.
The objectives that were highlighted so many years ago still hold true today and are still being accomplished. The different schools at the university allow students to be educated in all aspects that are outlined in this report. The McIntire school allows students to run their own businesses and calculate for themselves. All students have an English requirement but I'm not sure how that improves one's morals. Students at the university also are supposedly taught morals which I think is not possible as morals can not be taught simply by going into a class.
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