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Raised in northeast Philadelphia, Rush's father was a farmer and gunsmith who died when Benjamin was only six years old.  His mother supported her family by running a Philadelphia grocery.  For five years Benjamin attended the West Nottingham Academy in Rising Sun, Maryland, and at age 13 was admitted as a junior. He graduated at age 14 as its youngest graduate ever, having already mastered its 5-year curriculum that required fluency in Greek and Latin.  

Raised in northeast Philadelphia, Rush's father was a farmer and gunsmith who died when Benjamin was only six years old.  His mother supported her family by running a Philadelphia grocery.  For five years Benjamin attended the West Nottingham Academy in Rising Sun, Maryland, and at age 13 was admitted as a junior. He graduated at age 14 as its youngest graduate ever, having already mastered its 5-year curriculum that required fluency in Greek and Latin.  

He felt that education must be based on the foundation of religion:  "I proceed ... to inquire what mode of education we shall adopt so as to secure to the state all of the advantages that are to be derived from the proper instruction of the youth; and here I beg leave to remark that the only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid on the foundation of religion.  Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments. ...  But the religion I mean to recommend in this place is that of the New Testament...  Its doctrines and precepts are calculated to promote the happiness of society and the safety and well-being of civil government."  Thoughts Upon the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic (1786).

 

 

Rush felt that education must be based on the foundation of religion:  "I proceed ... to inquire what mode of education we shall adopt so as to secure to the state all of the advantages that are to be derived from the proper instruction of the youth; and here I beg leave to remark that the only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid on the foundation of religion.  Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments. ...  But the religion I mean to recommend in this place is that of the New Testament...  Its doctrines and precepts are calculated to promote the happiness of society and the safety and well-being of civil government."  Thoughts Upon the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic (1786).

Physicians like to quote what Dr. Benjamin Rush reportedly said about the Constitution around 1787: "The Constitution of this Republic should make special provision for medical freedom. To restrict the art of healing to one class will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic. ... Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship and force people who wish doctors and treatment of their own choice to submit to only what the dictating outfit offers."  While some claim Dr. Rush said this at the [[Constitutional Convention]] in 1787, he did not attend that convention and did not sign the [[U.S. Constitution]] draft there.

Physicians like to quote what Dr. Benjamin Rush reportedly said about the Constitution around 1787: "The Constitution of this Republic should make special provision for medical freedom. To restrict the art of healing to one class will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic. ... Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship and force people who wish doctors and treatment of their own choice to submit to only what the dictating outfit offers."  While some claim Dr. Rush said this at the [[Constitutional Convention]] in 1787, he did not attend that convention and did not sign the [[U.S. Constitution]] draft there.