Latin
I was surprised to learn how common it is for middle school and high school students to study Latin in Virginia. In Little Rock, very few elementary and middle schools offered Latin. I'm glad the tradition of studying the Classics has persisted.
Ideology
"Ideology" would be such a broad course to offer. Was this a class on a specific ideology or popular thought at the time of the writing of the document? Or was the scope even wider? Did the class cover what it means for an ideology to be an ideology and how an ideology matures?
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
This quotation serves as a reminder that education is a means to develop informed citizens who can competently participate in their government.
Spanish is highly interesting to us, as the language spoken by so great a portion of the inhabitants of our Continents, with whom we shall possibly have great intercourse ere long
It is interesting to see this justification for offering Spanish--a way to open a dialogue with natives--in contrast with how most natives were actually treated.