“This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” EducationLearningUniversity Of VirginiaUva Author:Thomas Jefferson
“Jefferson also founded the first intentionally secularized university in America. His vision for the University of Virginia was for education finally free from traditional Christian dogma. He had a disdain for the influence that institutional Christianity had on education. At the University of Virginia there was no Christian curriculum and the school had no chaplain.” AmericaEducationUniversitySecularDisdainThomas JeffersonJeffersonChaplainUniversity Of VirginiaUva Author:Daryl C. Cornett