The Unfair Advantage: How the Founding Fathers Actually Learned to Think

We celebrate what the Founders built, but almost never ask how they learned to think in the first place. From Ivy-trained scholars like Jefferson to self-taught minds like Franklin and Washington, the founding generation shared one real advantage—and it wasn't a diploma. As America turns 250 and an AI-driven world reshapes what education is for, here's what their classrooms, libraries, and apprenticeships can teach us about raising the scholars of tomorrow.