Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1930, Page 134

!HESE LTTLE PuRITANS f ARE ON THEIR WAY TO SCHOO). . THEY ARE CARRVING THEIR "MORNBOOKRS" SLUNG AROUND> THEIR NECKRS. — © \ -us LEADERS OF THE PUR TANS WHO MIGRATED TO AMEQICA IN 1630 WERE MEN OF LEARNING AND> CULTURE WHO WISHED TO SPREAD> EDU- CATION AMONG THE COLONISTS . .s EARLY AS 1642 TME MASSA- CHUSETTS AUTHORITIES PASSED LAWS MARING EDUCATION COMPULSORY IN THE COLONY, .: SOME OF HER LITTLE CHARGES .n 1647 EVERY TOWNSHIP GREW RESTLESS AND SHOWED AN JNCLINATION TO RUN AWAY, THE SCHOOL:MARM" wouLD TIE THEM TO HER. CHAIR OR PIN THEM SECURELY TO NER SKIRT. W HE PURITAN CHILDREN CAME TO LEARN THE ALPHA- BET BY MEMORIZING QUAINT VERSES LIKE THOSE SHOWN ABOVE. OF FIFTY OR MORE FAMILIES WAS REQUIRED BY LAW TO PROVIDE A SCHOOLMASTER. TO TEACH REAPING AND WRITING. DUCATIONAL TRAINI NG WAS ALL WORK AND NO PLAY IN THOSE PAYS . BIRCH SWITCHES WERE FREELY USED To "INSPIRE " BACKWARD PUPILS . i RIS 7 =g ) w .oue BEFORE THAT TIME, HOW- EVER , THERE WERE DAME ScHOOLS” AMONG THE PURITANS, -PRIVATE SCHO0)L.S CONDUCTED> BY CERTAIN HOUSEWIVES FOR THE SMALL CHILDREN OF THEIR NEIGHBORS . - HE SCHOOLHOUSES WERE ROUGHM CABINS. THE PUPILS SAY ON BENCHES MADE OF SPLIT LOGS. THEY WROTE WITH CHAR- COAL ON PIECES OF BIRCH BARK. (Copyright, 1930, by J. Carroll Mansfield) HE OLDER GRAMMAR SCHOOL \WHERE THE CHIEF STUDY WAS LATIN, A KNOWLEPGE OF THAT LANGUAGE THEN BEING CONSIDERED THE MARK OF A CULTURED MAN. — .HREE OTHER BOYS ARE HIDING IN THE PICTURE, —* CAN YOU FIND THEM 4 By J. CARROLL MANSFIELD -HE DAME ScHooL was A FORE-RUNNER OF THE MODERN KINDERGARTEN . THE TEACHING INCLUDED> LESSONS (N DEPORTMENT AND READINGS FROM THE BIBLE ., —* .EAL BOOKS WERE SCARCE AND “HMORNBOOKS’ WERE MOSTLY USED. A HORNBOOK WAS A LESSON SHEET MOUNTED ON A BLOCK OF WOOD HAVING A HANDLE AND COVERED WITH A TRANSPARENT SHEET OF HORN FOR PROTECTION. !T FIFTEEN A BOY WAS READY TOENTER THE LINWVERSITY. THE FIRST COLONIAL COLLEGE WAS: HARVARD>, FOUNDED AT NEW- TOWN (CAMBRIDGE) IN 1638, = 7o BE CONTINUEL>.,