Why did jefferson believe that education was the best way to create model americans?

Thomas Jefferson thought that education was the best way to form American models and examples to follow among other citizens of the rest of the world. It founded a different educational institution free of ecclesiastical doctrines where the students had specialties in different areas of studies, to improve the learning. Jefferson believed that through education a just and organized society could be maintained and that all citizens had the right to education. He promoted education through his thinking "Only a popular education can defend democracy" and "An ignorant people can not preserve their freedom".