A young people's history of Virginia and Virginians .. . opulation was too much dispersed and thecolony too poor at that time for the expenditure of themoney necessary. Some of the planters employed pri-vate tutors in their families, who taught not only theirown children but those of their neighbors. Boys, andsometimes girls, were sent to England to school, andyoung men finished their education in that country. Wefind frequent provision made in wills in the seventeenth 112 History of Virginia and Virginians. century for the education of the children of the Virginia, even in colon
A young people's history of Virginia and Virginians .. . opulation was too much dispersed and thecolony too poor at that time for the expenditure of themoney necessary. Some of the planters employed pri-vate tutors in their families, who taught not only theirown children but those of their neighbors. Boys, andsometimes girls, were sent to England to school, andyoung men finished their education in that country. Wefind frequent provision made in wills in the seventeenth 112 History of Virginia and Virginians. century for the education of the children of the Virginia, even in colonial times, was abreast of hersister colonies in the matter of education is shown by thenumber of public men she produced, who were the lead-ers of thought and who shaped both the State and Conti-nental legislation during the Revolutionary period, andsubsequently laid the foundations of the republic. Wash-ington, Henry, Mason, Jefferson, Monroe, Marshall, Pen-dleton, the Lees and their associates were not the productof an ignorant and illiterate univebsitY of vieginia, established 1825. Colleges and Schools.—As we have seen, near the closeof the seventeenth century the Rev. Dr. Blair succeededin establishing the College of William and Mary at Wil-liamsburg, to be followed later by the numerous schoolsand colleges which have contributed so greatly to the ad-vancement of the educational interests of Virginia andthe South; among these may be named Liberty HallAcademy (now Washington and Lee University), Hamp-den-Sidney, Randolph-Macon, Emory and Henry, Roa-noke College, Richmond College, Virginia Military Insti-tute, and the University of Virginia, the greatest work of History of Virginia and Virginians. 113 the great Jefferson; so that, in 1860, in no other State orcountry of the world, save Prussia, had so large a pro-portion of the population enjoyed the advantages of a col-legiate education as in Virginia. QUESTIONS. 1. How were the houses of the first settlers built
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