Greatest Teachers: George Washington

Greatest Teachers: George Washington

Written by Grace Canlas “A good moral character is the first essential in a man…It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous.” This advice given by George Washington to his nephew, George Steptoe Washington, embodies the spirit of Hillsdale College—the education, or “leading forth,” of students in pursuit of moral virtue and self-government. It is by learning from the Greatest Teachers, described …