The Public Statutes Of Massachusetts Relating To Public Instruction 1888

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ISBN 13 : 9781332183678
Total Pages : 110 pages
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Download or read book The Public Statutes of Massachusetts Relating to Public Instruction written by Massachusetts Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Public Statutes of Massachusetts Relating to Public Instruction: With Annotations and Explanations, Including the Laws in Force, December 31, 1888 Lord Macaulay once said in parliament: "Illustrious forever in history were the founders of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; though their love of freedom of conscience was illimitable and indestructible they could see nothing servile or degrading in the principle that the State should take upon itself the charge of the education of the people. In the year 1642 they passed their first legislative enactment on this subject, in the preamble of which they distinctly pledged themselves to this principle, that education was a matter of the deepest possible importance and the greatest possible interest to all nations and to all communities, and that as such it was, in an eminent degree, deserving of the peculiar attention of the State." [Speech on Government Plan of Education, April 19, 1847.] Ordinance or 1642. At a session of the General Court of the colony of Massachusetts Bay in New England commenced on the 14th of June, 1642, the court, taking into consideration the great neglect in many parents and masters in training up their children in learning, ordered and decreed: - That in every town the chosen men appointed for managing the prudential affairs of the same shall henceforth stand charged with the care of the redress of this evil; and for this end they shall have power to take account from time to time of their parents and masters, and of their children, concerning their calling and employment of their children, especially of their ability to read and understand the principles of religion and the capital laws of the country, and to impose fines upon all those who refuse to render such account to them when required; and they shall have power to put forth apprentices the children of such as they shall find not to be able and fit to employ and bring them up. [Mass. Coll. Records, vol. 2, pp. 6-9.] About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.