The Founders on Education: Forming Virtuous Citizens Begins in the Covenant Home

Format: Blog / Historical Teaching / Civic Theology / Parenting Theme: The founders made education the engine of virtue and virtue the engine of liberty — the home is where both begin; without it, shalah collapses into counterfeit security Scripture: Job 12:6; Deuteronomy 6:6-7; Northwest Ordinance 1787; Proverbs 22:6

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Deuteronomy 6 (Shema) is the original founding-era education policy: teach these words diligently to your children — in the home first, then in every place. The home is the first school and the most formative one

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Hebrew Term

שלה (shalah)

Shalah: false security — an uneducated (in virtue) people enjoy the ease of comfort until it collapses. Founders saw intellectual training without character formation as a direct path to counterfeit shalah at national scale

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