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To: Metacomet who wrote (141367)	8/15/2008 5:39:19 PM
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Education of the Founding Fathers of the Republic: Scholasticism in the Colonial educationconversation.wordpress.com Colleges by James J. Walsh; Fordham University Press, 1935. Excerpts from Chapter One: The Education of the Fathers In his introduction to the revised edition of Sanderson’s Biographies of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, Robert T. Conard said: “It may be doubted whether any popular body has comprised so large a proportion of highly educated members [as the Continental Congress who signed the Declaration of Independence]. The number of those who had regularly graduated in the colleges of Europe or America was twenty-seven or nearly one-half the whole number, fifty-five. [There were] Twenty other members whose education though not regularly collegiate was either academic or by dint of unaided energy as in the case of Franklin was equal or superior to the ordinary course of the universities. Nine of the members only of that august body can be set down as of ordinary and plain education, though in that number are included men of extensive reading, enlightened views and enlarged sagacity.” He adds: “There is no movement on record in which so large an amount of political science, observation, wisdom and experience was brought to bear as in the American Revolution.” cont.