I think it is very interesting that the importance of learning Latin and Greek is so highly stressed in this report. It's almost as if authors of this report felt that the primary need for constructing district schools was to prepare young boys to be fluent in these two languages before they entered college because as said earlier, Latin and Greek were the foundations of science. Nowadays, district schools, or high schools, serve to educate children in all subject areas and predominantly stress the importance of learning English and Math. Also, Latin and Greek are not as significant now as they were in the time period that this report was written because everything written in these two languages have been translated to English. Now, Latin and Greek are considered "dead languages." I also picked up on the fact that the authors only mentioned boys going to school. Back then, males were the only ones who were allowed to receive an education, but now the University of Virginia is 54% female. It's so ironic that a university built to cater to the needs of men has translated into being dominated by women.

This quote alone shows the heavy impact that racism had specifically on education in this time period. I find it so ironic that a university built entirely by black slaves had the intentions of only educating the white population and took that heavily into consideration when constructing the university. It's also interesting that the university today is still a predominantly white university with only 5.7% black students and 5.3% hispanic/latino students. Even though slavery was abolished many years ago, the university still seems to reflect its founding principle of predominantly educating the white population.