The Continental Congress (before the U.S. ![]() Thomas Jefferson proposes a two-track educational system, with different tracks in his words for "the laboring and the learned." Scholarship would allow a very few of the laboring class to advance, Jefferson says, by "raking a few geniuses from the rubbish." The goal is to ensure that Puritan children learn to read the Bible and receive basic information about their Calvinist religion. ![]() ![]() ![]() The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony decrees that every town of fifty families should have an elementary school and that every town of 100 families should have a Latin school.
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