Development of a Nation 1783-1815: Education Research Article from American Eras

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Development of a Nation 1783-1815: Education Research Article from American Eras

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The Society for. Establishing a Free School in the City of New York, a committee of the city's leading citizens, drafted this memorial to the state legislature on 25 February 1805:
Your memorialists have viewed with painful anxiety the multiplied evils which have accrued, and are daily accruing, to this city, from the neglected education of the children of the poor. They allude more particularly to that description of children who do not belong to, or are not provided for, by any religious society; and who, therefore, do not partake of the advantages arising from the different Charity Schools established by the various religious societies of this city. The condition of this class is deplorable indeed; reared up by parents who, from a variety of concurring circumstances, are become either indifferent to the best interests of their offspring, or, through intemperate lives, are rendered unable...

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