'The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate': - Jefferson

From: The American Thinker

'The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate': - Jefferson
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/08/the_cornerstone_of_democracy_r.html

The world has been turned upside down: Socialism is on the rise in the U.S. and capitalism is on the rise in China. The former is a result of an uneducated electorate that fails to understand socialism's history of producing poverty; the latter is a result of pragmatic leadership able to put aside communist ideology to embrace capitalism because it produces prosperity.
Thomas Jefferson, recognizing that the cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate, said that "whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."