Identifier: newyorkspartinhi00will (find matches)
Title: New York's part in history
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Williams, Sherman, 1846-1923
Subjects: New York (State) -- History
Publisher: New York, London, D. Appleton & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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where everyone might, andmost of them did, acquire a fair elementary education. Thesettlers of Massachusetts came from a country where educa-tion was for the few, not for the many. The people of eachcolony, therefore, brought to a greater or less degree theideals of the country from which they came. It may fairlybe said that the Dutch ideal was for universal education andthat the people who ruled Massachusetts were at the outsetchiefly concerned in educating people for the professions,more especially for the ministry. Education Under the Dutch It is easier to ascertain the facts regarding public educa-tion in the early history of Massachusetts than in New York.There were many educated men in Massachusetts who keptvoluminous diaries. The proceedings of the town meetings,the church records and the acts of the legislature in Massa-chusetts were all recorded in the English tongue and mightbe known to anyone, and were known to many. The government of New Netherland was largely in the 338 I
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Andrew Sloan Draper THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM hands of the officials of the West India Company and whenacts were recorded, which was not always the case, the recordswere in Dutch. The government of the colony was to someextent in the hands of the States-General but in part in theClassis of Amsterdam and, in the latter case, the records werenot only in Dutch but for the most part were kept only inHolland. It is therefore so difficult to ascertain the exactfacts in many matters that certain questions are, and arelikely to be, matters of controversy. The general conditionis pretty well known but there is doubt as to details—forinstance, the date of the first Dutch school. What was thegeneral situation in regard to public education in New Nether-land? On June 7, 1629, the West India Company adoptedand promulgated a charter of Freedoms and Exemptionsfor the patroons, masters or private persons, who shall plantany colony in, or send cattle to. New Netherland. This char-ter stated that * Th

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