The Schools Of New York Vol 1

Author : World's Columbian Exposition
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ISBN 13 : 9781330823958
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (239 download)

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Download or read book The Schools of New York, Vol. 1 written by World's Columbian Exposition and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Schools of New York, Vol. 1: A Glance at the Common School System of the Empire State The States General, after a long, heroic war of independence, paid particular attention to the welfare of the schools and made education the chief bulwark of the new republic. It was exceptionally good stock that laid the foundations of our great State. The Dutch colonists came from a land which will glow in the pages of history forever as the scene of the first great struggle for liberty in Europe, as the high-water mark from which the waves of feudalism and tyranny first began to recede. They brought with them to the new world the love of liberty which had grown op in their native land, moistened by the blood and suffering of countless martyrs, and strengthened by the prestige of countless triumphs over the banded forces of oppression. They also brought with them the love for the school, which they revered as the palladium of their liberties, the fount of patriotism, the conservator of good government. The school had an especial significance to them, for it was the institution against which the efforts of tyranny were particularly directed during the eighty years'struggle in the Netherlands. Among the host of Dutch martyrs the name of the schoolmaster is of the most frequent occurrence. "Neither the perils of war," writes one of their admirers, "nor the busy pursuit of gain, nor the excitement of political strife, ever caused the Dutch to neglect the duty of educating their offspring to enjoy that freedom for which their fathers fought. Schools were everywhere provided at the public expense, with good schoolmasters, to instruct the children of all classes in the usual branches of education." The early colonists on the shores of the Hudson were bluff, plain-spoken, earnest yet unpresumptuous men who brought over with them from the United Netherlands the liberal ideas, honest maxims and homely virtues of their country. With them came to the wilderness the church, the dominie and the schoolmaster. They came with no loud-sounding pretensions: to grandeur in purpose, eminence in-holiness or superiority in character. They showed that they were accustomed to do rather than to boast. Their clergymen were generally men of thorough education. Who presided at the schoolmaster's desk quite as often as in the pulpit or in conventicle. 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.