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Today in Thomas Jefferson’s History:

On November 2, 1822, Thomas Jefferson wrote to Thomas Cooper about the lack of discipline among American youth:

“The article of discipline is the most difficult in American education. Premature ideas of independence, too little repressed by parents, beget a spirit of insubordination, which is the great obstacle to science with us, and a principal cause of its decay since the revolution.”

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