The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1905-09-28
0nowTH on coMnoN scnooLs.

Herbert Spencer strongly opposed tie puolic school
system part Of sths coming slavery which he eon.
eeived 70 be or people ao allowed the government
70 % anything outside u poce work Yet the millog
Of children who are n0w educated at public expense ls
ttg @ tic usneaey q ha pira nat acaavmlc a. bis
aWumeut today there time uot sery long
ago slen it would have recelssd general approval In
spite or tne favorable heglnnius 10 colonial New E0
land TIA common school sslsm da not Become pfssa.
lent throughout ths United states until about seventy
ysam ago
Il The Intellectual impulse OF TIE renaissance aod
reformation that led % the ag great development q
common scheoh Ia knglana CurlouslS enough ths
spread Of leafnlng Is Indicated b The Increasing numte
q convicted alous Who esape TIE saiows ls pleadng
"beseat Of asfsy.r II Mssesiai KnelAnd il sAsa~ume
thar q man could read he must 10 a clergyman and
uot liable ths penalties ef civil courts Esen after
e abolition e ths criminal jurisdiction Of the ecelss
aslcAl tribunals tfe convicted leon could ea for lle
book read The neek ser~a And ga free With msrely a
TFo0tn =" branisd en hls thumb This snomAiy vas
mel abolished 10 Nnala sni ueAg le beginning ot ne
uatseeuth century.
TIE rVords Of Mddleex county England siee tf.as
Ia he rslgu oi Eisar ony eight and sssenth pr
oeuI u convicted lslags read lles 4 clcrk Ii EsA
heths time The percentage had flsn 10 THIRTY ono au6
under James nearly forts per ceat q ths ieons car
ior ts book Thus It happeuea thar tile arst American
cmsgants came from the county which sas ,atlug
palms "a educate is children.
10 The general interest ii education the Puritan ~
tiers added strong greeious motive A. Connecticut
statute Of 1917 has TINS 10 say u schools
1T beng chief rfolect of satan q keep men fom
ne knowledge oi TIE sefpturs Ia former tlmsA keep
ng them n an unknown Tongue % those latter times
hy perswading them from the n Tongues = that a
least The true sense and meaning af te Original might
b. elouded wlth faise gosss IL saints seemhT deoye
and that Leaning might not he baTet IA sne Graves of
foreAthen IN TIE Chufch Colony the Lore assisting
our eudeafou' u Is therefore ofsrea hy this eoar.H
The statute goes GA 70 provide for Instruction Ia
reading and writing 10 svefy town wlth ans of more
hoasehoten tie teachers 70 ~ paid ethsr Is tss paF
ents Of tbs attendant children cot of the keusrA
funds similar act had beea passed. b. Massachusetts,
10 lea6 Tie Dutch eoloniss were eqially soslcltoas
about their shildrens eucAtion a. we're also the sir
glnia settor but The plantation lie ia the so4th Pre-
vented the Development 81 public school system aus
comparatively late Throughout The country houeser
scloos continued 20 be elementary and 70 he ln many
cases supported BY pupils parents until s second Jrd
Of the last century, when the efforts of Horace Mann
effected great Improvements But il not until after
the cs War that the present system oi graded sifuc
ton was perfected To-day more than sleven miilan
children Ia the uaited states receive dAliy distraction
in the common schools from 3 haif million teachers
Arimofete.