Znhoward
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Apr 18, 2006 10:46 modified on Apr 18, 2006 10:52
Good point, though education in Plymouth Colony got off to a much slower start. In A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony, John Demos says that "for the first forty odd years of settlement there is only indirect evidence of the intent to found schools, and no evidence at all of schools in actual operation." In Plymouth proper, there were efforts to start a school in the 1670s but they were "apparently not sustained, for two decades later its citizens repeatedly went on record with directives that the selectmen 'should Indeavor to get A schoolmaster to teacher Children to Reade and write.'"
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