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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., The development of the public School of Medford . (search)
The development of the public School of Medford. by Charles H. Morss.
Forasmuch as the good education of children is of singular behoof and benefit to any commonwealth, and whereas many parents and masters are too indulgent and negligent of their duty in that kind the selectmen of every town were directed by the law of 1642 to have a vigilant eye over their neighbors, to see to it that the education of the children be not neglected.
The law of 1647 made it obligatory on towns of fifty families to maintain elementary schools, where children should be taught to read and write, and those of one hundred families should also have a grammar school, the masters thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the university.
Good citizenship was then as now one of the great aims of the public school.
The idea of what constituted this was explained by our ancestors in the preamble just quoted, and the law of 1647 adds a further explanation, as follows: It being o