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[quote=Anonymous]I will never understand people taking pride in being uneducated.  Maybe when they're out there at a rally, playing the fife and banging their drum, they might want to consider that the founder of Penn is Ben Franklin, and the father of UVA is Thomas Jefferson.  These men epitomized an educated elite.  They studied history, philosophy, languages, and science.  The "genius" of the constitution didn't come out of thin air.  They did not write the Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers as a bit of folk wisdom.  They spoke as Publius, Cato and Brutus.  They knew their Locke, Hobbes, Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Hume.  Far from mocking such "ivory tower" thinking, they sought it out in incredible ways.  At the age our children beg for the latest video game, some of our founding fathers were studying Greek and Latin, and not to fulfill some effite requirement but in order to read the classics.  Others did it the hard way: upon completing what limited education their parents could afford, they forged ahead and taught themselves.

If these men were alive they would be disgusted at the notion that the heirs of our constitutional history idolize them while crapping on one of the most important sources of their greatness.[/quote]

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