Unfortunately, that is a false statement. Today, students are taught that the Founding Fathers were slave-owning, misogynistic despots, who created a system designed to oppress the masses.
The results of this disinformation-based, miseducation, are seen in the youthful Obamabots, who will soon be knocking on your door, and asking you to sign a loyalty oath, Comrade. (And if you refuse - they know where you live).
I think it was Stalin who said something to the effect of, "Control education and control the masses".
Children in Utah learn more about Martin Luther King Jr. Susan B Anthony, Margaret Sanger, Rosa Parks etc than George Washington, John Adams, Patrick Henry, Abraham Lincoln the founding of this entire nation.
There is no teaching of what makes America great because to the education establishment what made America great stands as an impediment to their power.
His successors had absolute control of education, and they still lost control of the masses. It's not that simple.