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American argument Barnard's Journal bill Boston Castle county cation century chiefly child labor Colonial Commissioner of Education committee Common School System compulsory Connecticut decade declared demand early educa educational advance educational development educational progress England English establishment evils evolution factory system favor forces Free Enquirer free school law free tax-supported schools fund Henry Barnard Hinsdale Horace Mann humanitarian leaders Ibid ideals immigration important increased industrial influence instruction interests Journal of Education land later legislature liberty Man's Advocate manufacture Mass Massachusetts ment movement nation Ohio opposition pauper Pennsylvania period Phila Philadelphia political poor population private schools Public School Society public school system public schools Quoted reform religious Rep't Rhode Island Robert Dale Owen Robert Rantoul rural districts sectarian South struggle suffrage system of education taxation tend Thaddeus Stevens tion tional towns United urban vote wage-earners workers workingmen York City York Tribune
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Page 11 - It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading from the use of tongues, that so at least the true sense and meaning of the original might be clouded by false glosses of saintseeming deceivers, — that learning may not be buried in the grave of our fathers...
Page 20 - ... on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them; especially the university at Cambridge, public schools and grammar schools in the towns...
Page 118 - ... where the aristocracy is richer and more powerful than that of any other country in the world, the poor are more depressed, more pauperized, more numerous in comparison to the other classes, more irreligious, and very much worse educated than the poor of any other European nation, solely excepting Russia, Turkey, South Italy, Portugal and Spain.
Page 11 - ... that learning may not be buried in the grave of our fathers in the church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors, — " It is therefore ordered, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him, to write and read...
Page 65 - Look at that ragged fellow staggering from the whiskey shop, and see the slattern who has gone to reclaim him; where are their children? Running about ragged, idle, ignorant, fit candidates for the penitentiary. Why is all this so? Ask the man he will tell you, "Oh! the Government has undertaken to educate our children for us. It has given us a premium for idleness, and now I spend in liquor that which I should otherwise be obliged to save, to pay for their schooling.
Page 32 - The frontier States that came into the Union in the first quarter of a century of its existence came in with democratic suffrage provisions, and had reactive effects of the highest importance upon the older States whose peoples were being attracted there.
Page 11 - It is further ordered, That where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families or householders, they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the university...
Page 52 - The property of this commonwealth is pledged for the education of all its youth, up to such a point as will save them from poverty and vice, and prepare them for the adequate performance of their social and civil duties.
Page 72 - Resolved, that next to life and liberty, we consider education the greatest blessing besto'wed upon mankind.
Page 12 - ... it is further ordered, that where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families or householders they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the university; provided, that if any town neglect the performance hereof above one year, that every such town shall pay five pounds to the next school till they shall perform this order.