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A Zeal For Education
Title: A Zeal For Education
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1760 | Pages: 7.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
A Zeal For Education
Concern for Education
- Free schooling was the exception, not the rule, in British colonies
- Many colonial leaders had a concern for education
o All major religious groups had education concerns:
§ Anglicans in Virginia and the Carolinas
§ Catholics in Maryland
§ Puritans in New England
§ Quakers in Pennsylvania
- Religious leaders constantly discussed means of ensuring education to the children in their respective areas
- The emphasis upon reading the Bible and pious books was characteristic of the English …showed first 75 words of 1760 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1760 total…of higher education
o Founded to teach ministers divinity
- College of William and Mary – chartered in 1693 – second institution of higher learning
- Yale – founded in 1716 – founded to offer the level of learning of Harvard without the bustle of the big city – third colonial college
- King College – New York – Later known as Columbia – chartered in 1754
- Other colleges founded before the Revolution:
o Rhode Island College – later known as Brown University – 1764
o Queens College – Later known as Rutgers - 1766
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