![]() ![]() Jefferson lodged and boarded at William & Mary in the building known today as the Sir Christopher Wren Building, attending communal meals in the Great Hall and morning and evening prayers in the Chapel. In addition to the philosophy school - the collegiate course in which Jefferson enrolled - William & Mary included a grammar school for boys about 12 to 15 years of age the divinity school, where young men who had completed their studies in the philosophy school would be prepared for ordination in the Church of England and the Indian School, founded for the education and Christianizing of Indian boys. By the time he came to Williamsburg, the young scholar was proficient in the classics and able to read Greek and Latin authors in the original, a practice he continued throughout his life. ![]() ![]() He had received his early education from tutors at home and, later, as a boarder in schools taught by Anglican clergymen. Thomas Jefferson enrolled in William & Mary on March 25, 1760, at the age of 16. ![]()
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