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The Educational System of Pennsylvania; By J. M. Yetter

The Educational System of Pennsylvania; By J. M. Yetter

Yetter, John Milton

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ISBN10: 1151372420
ISBN13: 9781151372420
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 26
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.05 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER I. AN EDUCATIONAL CONTEST. In order the better to understand why the settlers of Pennsylvania were all in favor of education, the kind of education they desired and the kind of schools they established, it would be well to note that they had fled from religious persecution; most were Protestants, and one of the two great principles of Protestantism is that the Bible is the only rule of religious faith and practice. Hence, it is necessary that every child should learn to read the Bible. This explains why the work of Michael Schlatter, the first superintendent in Pennsylvania, was necessary: Since the reformation, the church and the school had been one interest, and some sects are still unable to see that they may be as independent of each other as the church and state. The various leaders of religious sects, therefore, were very much interested in schools. Michael Schlatter was one of the greatest of these workers. He visited Holland and Germany. He published a journal in Europe appealing for money. He sailed for America and arrived in Boston in 1746. The next year he pushed on to Skippach and Philadelphia. He visited many other places in this vicinity, and in the same year (1747) he organized the first German Reformed Synod in America. Schlatter found a great lack of schoolmasters and ministers. The people were too poor to support them, even too poor to support their own families. He feared the people would wander from their religion. From Holland he collected 12,000 sterling. England, Palatinate and Switzerland all received 19 his appeal for funds. He argued that F. A. Muhlenberg, the great patriarch of the Lutheran Church in Pennsylvania, took better care of his flock than he could of the Reformed people, for he--Muhlenberg--had more abu...

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