“The evidence is that between the middle of the seventeenth century
and the end of the eighteenth New England evolved from a society little more than half-literate to a society of nearly universal
male literacy.
- Kenneth A. Lockridge
LITERACY IN COLONIAL NEW ENGLAND |
"Only the young die good."
- Oliver Herford |
"The chief object of education is not to learn things but to
unlearn things."
- G. K. Chesterson |
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