{"text":"The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expense of it,' [John] Adams wrote. 'There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.' Jefferson's fear was that without such a system of public education, the country would end up being ruled by a privileged elite that would recycle itself through a network of private institutions that entrenched their advantage.","author":"Fareed Zakaria","tags":["college","education","founding-fathers","liberal-arts"],"id":4216,"author_id":"Fareed+Zakaria"}