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A Reappraisal of Colonial New Hampshire's Effort in Public Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Irving G. Hendrick
Irving G. Hendrick*
Affiliation:
University of California at Riverside
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Many questions have long shrouded the nature and extent of colonial New England's effort in education. Samuel Eliot Morison, a recognized authority on New England history, has remarked that “for want of records there is still much obscurity in the educational history of colonial New England.” In spite of the scarcity of town records, a controversy has reigned for some time over how well the early school laws were enforced, how good the schools that were established may have been, and the extent of religion's role in education. Some historians, Professor Morison included, have seen in the efforts of Puritan New England a legitimate and positive influence respecting education. Others, including some professors of education, have tended to criticize colonial New England's educational program for being too religious in nature and too narrow in scope.

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Research Article
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , Summer 1966 , pp. 43 - 60
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Copyright © 1966 History of Education Quarterly 

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