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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter learned in APUSH that Thomas Jefferson did not like his experience at W and M and he relied on this experience when founding UVA. (We do not live in VA). [/quote]

That is not really true.  Jefferson gave great credit to his experience at William and Mary as a student.  Of Dr. William Small he wrote: "It was my great fortune, and what probably fixed the destinies of my life that Dr. William Small of Scotland was then professor of mathematics, a man profound in most of the useful branches of science, with a happy talent of communication, correct and gentlemanly manners and an enlarged and liberal mind."  Small introduced Jefferson to Locke, Bacon, and Newton.  He studied law under George Wythe and wrote "to him I am indebted for first impressions which have had the most salutary influence on the course of my life."  Dumas Malone, his biographer, wrote that Jefferson's time in Williamsburg "is the story of the...first flowering of an extraordinary mind."

Jefferson did succeed in reforming William and Mary significantly in 1779, abolishing the divinity school, and adding instruction in modern languages, law, anatomy and medicine, and fine arts.  He also added the first elective system.  He wanted greater public funding, no teaching of theology, and more sciences, though, which led to the founding of the University of Virginia. [/quote]

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