I like this one sentence. It is a really positive way to look at education and the things that it can offer deeper than simply an increase in scholarly knowledge. I also like that it says that education serves to help control any innate weaknesses in our morals. I think that it is safe to say that becoming more educated, through advances in science and social contributions made by minority peoples, helped to alter some of the societal moral weaknesses in regards to these minority people.

This section serves to exemplify that the structure of government and laws are used to promote individual freedom and refrain from violating equal rights of another. This sounds ideal, especially in regards to the ethical/social goals of our university. However, this section does bother me knowing that these "equal rights of another" that they talked about was not truly referring to equal rights of all people. I suppose I will never truly be able to understand how white people and people in power during this time could so easily dehumanize minority groups (African Americans and Women); However, even knowing that that is true does not prevent statements such as these from this time period from evoking frustration within me.

This section is frustrating as it explicitly says that one of the purposes of education is to teach students to expound the principles of government and to banish restraint on individual action to leave them free to do "whatever does not violate the equal rights of another", yet it only truly refers to the rights of other white men as women's civil rights and civil rights of African Americans were not recognized at this time. It is frustrating to me as it so blatantly shows the ignorance or blindness of these men to the rights of others. Having the beliefs and desires of equal rights that I do, I could not imagine reading or writing those statements ad only referring to white men of a certain socioeconomic status.

This sentence highlights the pertinent racism within the group of Commissioners. During this time all of the wealthy, important, educated people who did things like build Universities were in fact white men. Although this is generally common knowledge, this sentence draws attention to just how common and accepted this societal racism was. They noted that "centrality to the white population" was indeed the most important factor in choosing location. What is so unfortunate is that this practice isn't completely gone today. It reminds me much of the practice of gerrymandering and redlining that still often occurs in our political system today. Then the intentions were to make services available to white people by location and excluded interest of other ethnicities, and now it is used to benefit political groups (dominated by white men) or to exclude certain ethnic groups.