An Investigation To Determine The Efficiency With Which The Compulsory Attendance Law Is Enforced In PDF Download

Excerpt from An Investigation to Determine the Efficiency With Which the Compulsory Attendance Law Is Enforced in Philadelphia: Thesis; Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Modern compulsory education has its origin in the desire for universal education at the time that the State was beginning to assume the function of educating the people. The reformers everywhere aimed to perpetuate their faith by educating the people. "The keynote of this attempt was struck by Luther in his address to the councilmen of all the towns of Germany, in 1524. He argued that, if a ruler can compel military service of his subjects, he can also compel the children to attend school as both are for the defence and welfare of the country." "Calvin, at Geneva, as far as possible, made education obligatory. By the close of the sixteenth century the principle of compulsory education had become an essential part of the educational creed of Protestant Germany, and, spreading through other Protestant countries, soon came to be an accomplished fact in some. Holland attained a higher standard than could be found anywhere. All, even the lowest classes, could read and write." From Holland and England the movement spread to America. The early New England settlers were educated and in sympathy with the movement for universal education. "The Massachusetts' law of 1642 was a public assertion of the right of the State to educate the child in default of the parent to do his own duty. The Massachusetts' general court authorized its officials to look into the homes of the people and to unmask parental greed, neglect and abuse; it even asserted supreme authority to take the child from its parents and educate it at the public expense." The Connecticut Colony, in 1650, and the New Haven Colony, in 1655, passed laws containing a provision for obligatory education. These laws were sufficient for their time. "Their successful administration was due primarily to the favorable conditions under which they were established. The people were homogeneous and well-to-do. They were intelligent and industrious." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.