various locations so that no scholar would be required to travel more than one day’s journey from home to school. Grammar schools were seen as “preparatory to the entrance of students into the university.” ! It was clear that Jefferson intended that local leaders would come from among those educated at the grammar-school. Its graduates would provide leadership in business, transportation, surveying, the militia and local government. ! Teachers from the elementary schools would be drawn from those who finished the grammar school curriculum, especially from among the scholarship boys not chosen for university attendance. University Education ! The original plan for the university called for 10 professorships covering: ancient language—Latin, Greek and Hebrew; modern language—French, Spanish, Italian, German and Anglo-Saxon; pure mathematics; physico- mathematics; natural philosophy—chemistry and minerology; botany and zoology; medicine and anatomy’ government; law; and ideology—grammar, ethics, rhetoric, belles letters, and fine arts. Also, private tuition in religion, gymnastics, military, manual arts, dancing, music and drawing.