Excerpt from The Church and Popular Education

England was the direct outgrowth of ministerial in¿uence upon the law-makers of the first colonies of Plymouth, Massachusetts and Connecticut. The phraseology of and historic comment on those early laws which established common schools, grammar schools and co'lleges, show that the underlying motive for all these foundations was to continue the supply of an educated ministry for the churches, good leaders for the State, and to prevent the extinction of learning among the people. In New England local history there is nothing more characteristic of those simple religious communities, wherein town and church were practically one in spirit, than the systematic support of preaching and teaching.

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