A Republic, If You Can Keep It: The Education Every Student Really Needs

‘If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” These words come from an 1816 letter written by Thomas Jefferson — one of our most influential Founding Fathers, but not the father of the United States Constitution. That title belongs to James Madison — and less than a third of American college graduates know this.