www.cacp.info – # 651 – 12-23-06 – 149 – Donald Conkey

 

Principle of Government #23: “A free society cannot survive as a republic without a broad program of general education.” Universal education was unheard of until 1647 when Massachusetts passed laws that required community’s of 50 families to set up free public grammar schools to teach the fundamentals of reading, writing, ciphering, history, geography, and Bible study, and township with 100 families or more to set up secondary schools in advanced studies to prepare boys for attendance at Harvard. Teaching children on the Constitution was introduced in 1828 with a popular textbook called “A Catechism on the Constitution” which contained questions and answers concerning the principles of the American political system.

            Another popular textbook, the Bible, was called by Daniel Webster, “a book of faith, of doctrine, of religion, …that teaches man his own individual responsibility, his own dignity, and his equality with his fellow man.”  Remember – sound principles unite.

NOTE: Last week I wrote Jefferson died in 1825 – wrong, he died in 1826.

CACP’s Grass-Root effort to inform America on its Origin and History <> Please forward to Family & Friends.<> Source Books available at www.nccs.net <>  Source: Skousen’s 5000 Year Leap  - p. 249 - 256