Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . moral freedom for which the fathers hadfought. William Penn had views on education far in advance of theage in which he lived. He believed in education as necessary togood government: That which makes a good constitution mustkeep it, viz.: Men of wisdom and virtue: qualities, that becausethey descended not with worldly inheritance, must be carefullypropagated by a virtuous education of youth. These words arefrom the preface of Penns Frame of Government, written earlyin 1682. In the same document it is provided that the Governorand Pro
Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . moral freedom for which the fathers hadfought. William Penn had views on education far in advance of theage in which he lived. He believed in education as necessary togood government: That which makes a good constitution mustkeep it, viz.: Men of wisdom and virtue: qualities, that becausethey descended not with worldly inheritance, must be carefullypropagated by a virtuous education of youth. These words arefrom the preface of Penns Frame of Government, written earlyin 1682. In the same document it is provided that the Governorand Provincial Cr)uncil shall erect and order all pulilic schools,and encourage and reward tlie authors of useful science and laud-able inventions. A committee of manners, education and artswas to be appointed to prevent wicked and scandalous living andto see to it that xnuth may be successively trained up in virtueand useful knowledge and the arts. Penn aimed to lay thefoundation for a svstem of industrial education. One of the Pennsylvania Colonial and Federal. Old Eight Square School House Diamond Rock. Photo by J. F. Sachse enactments of the second assembly, which met at Philadelphia in1683, explicitly provided for a general system of is evidence that this law was enforced. It was not merelya step in the direction of industrial education, but an attempt tobanish illiteracy and to make ignorance impossible, ante-datingour compulsory school laws by two centuries. Another enactment, providing that the statutes of the provinceshould be published from time to time in book form and regularlytaught to the children, reminds one of the Roman republic inwhich the youth learned by heart Twelve Tables of the law as apreparation for citizenship. By the direction of Penn a school wasopened in 1689, ^^^d was formally chartered in 1697. It wascalled the Friends Public school and has continued to exist untilthe present time, although it is now and has for many years been The Educ
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