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By John Adams
I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine.
- Source
- John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 May 1780, May 1780 · Adams Family Correspondence, vol. 3, pp. 341-343
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- Founders Online, National Archives (The Adams Papers, Adams Family Correspondence, vol. 3)
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From a letter John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail from Paris, about May 12, 1780. He opens it "My dear Portia." The Founders Online editors date it "post 12 May 1780."