OLD-TIME SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL-BOOKS - online book
An Illustrated history & description Of Schools in the 18th & 19th Centurys.
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Colonial Schools of the Eighteenth Century 35
now, but it was a common thing then to set such precepts before children, and Washington very likely committed them to memory. They touch on things great and small, and in certain instances throw a rather curious light on the rude habits of the times. How strange, for example, is the admonition, " Kill no Vermin as Fleas, lice, ticks, etc., in the Sight of Others."
The Virginia schools long continued to have much the same desultory character they had in |
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One of the Log Schoolhouses still to be found in the South. |
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Washington's youth. A master who kept a plantation school in 1800 for a few months tells of one of his pupils who was a man thirty years of age. Another pupil persisted in coming with two huge |
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