Benjamin Rush's plan for a Christian Education in the early American Republic
Private education in Early America, specifically what would be considered today has higher education was tied directly to Christianity. The Ivy league and any other early educational institution would have been sponsored by and run by Christian organizations well passed the early American Republics time period. Dr. Benjamin Rush a founding father and leader in American Education reform was aligned with the concept of Christianity and religions close ties. Benjamin Rush was himself the first chemistry teacher in America at the countries first medical school in Philadelphia. He was the founder of Dickinson College in Carlisle Pennsylvania and one of the founders of Franklin College in Lancaster Pennsylvania (today Franklin and Marshall college). His educational bone fides are well established. He brought with him to the conversation on post revolutionary education the expectation that a useful republican education was also a Christian education. Rush was clear, “That the only f