...time of all parents and masters, and of their children, concerning their calling and employment of their children, especially of their ability to read...the principles of religion and the capital laws of this country."1 This was followed only a few years later, in 1647, by that famous law which ordered,...

...to time of all parents and masters and of their children, concerning their calling and employment of their children, especially of their ability to read...the principles of religion and the capital laws of this country; and to impose fines upon such as shall refuse to render such accounts to them when they...

...that parents and masters provided for the education of their children, to the extent of teaching them to read and understand the principles of religion and the capital laws of the country, and to engage in some suitable employment. In 1645 it had been ordered that all youth in the colony...

...1642 an ordinance was passed requiring " chosen men " to take account of the ability of children " to read and understand the principles of religion and the capital laws of this country." An ordinance establishing grammar schools was passed November 11, 1647, in the preamble...

...time of all parents and masters, and of their children, concerning their calling and employment of their children, especially of their ability to read...the principles of religion and the capital laws of this country, and to impose fines upon such as shall refuse to render such accounts to them when they...

...selectman was responsible. He must see that all the children learned to read, and that they were taught to understand the principles of religion and the capital laws of the country, and, finally, he must make sure that they were put to some useful work. lectively. Nothing was said...

...1642, when it was ordered that neglected children be apprenticed, instructed in a trade, and taught to read and understand the principles of religion and the capital laws of the country. The influences of the Reformation may Education In the I'nlted States 245 Education In the United States...

...Court in 1642 required the selectmen to take oversight of all families and "see that the childdren can read and understand the principles of religion, and the capital laws of the country, and that they are put to some useful work." This is an ideal of education which we have not yet reached...

...number of them shall have power to take account from time to time, of all parents and masters, and of their children, especially of their ability to read...the principles of religion and the capital laws of this country and to impose fines upon such as fail to render such account to them when they shall be...

...should have the oversight of a certain number of families. They were to see that the children could read and understand the principles of religion and the capital laws of the country, and that they were put to some useful work. Thus far no mention of schools, but in 1647 was enacted...