This section of the document shows how times have changed from the writing of this document to my time here at the university. The importance and study of agriculture at this university has declined as the economic landscape has changed over the past 200 years to the point where most people will not study agriculture, or even manufactures because both are no longer as prominent in American society today. Commerce is still studied at the university by many students because this broader concept has thrived over the past two centuries. There are also a vast number of areas of study at the university today whereas 200 years ago, most people had the same general education in all the areas expressed in the document.

Many of the goals of the new University seem to be more societal based than purely academic. Improving the virtue and social consciousness of men attending the University seems to be just as important as the academic studies he takes on. A goal of Jefferson and the other men who helped write this document was to improve the quality of citizenship among the Men in Virginia and beyond through teachings of how to treat your neighbors, how to be a good American citizen, and how to be a virtuous person who contributes to society.This was clearly interwoven into the academic discipline of the early university.

This report talks a lot about building the moral character of the students that receive an educations at the university, while the immoral nature of the document is clear by itself it is extremely ironic. They want to both build the moral character of students while they learn at the university, and maintain it while they are living their, by excluding everyone but white males. Seems like one of the foundations of the university, to educate white males, is a bad start to improving the morality of citizens of Virginia.

The rhetoric of this report is clearly elitist in support of the perfect "southern white male" that Jefferson and the state of Virginia wished to educate at this University. The technological advancements of the 50 years prior to the writing of this document are invoked to show the possibilities that education can provide, but at the same time comparisons are made to the Native population in an attempt to justify the need for a great educational institution. The writers of this report are suggesting that without educating the southern white males, their society will too closely resemble the "primitive ways" of the indigenous peoples. Thus, conveying their theme of elitism and lack of value in people other than white men.