Excerpt from Semi-Centennial Celebration 1888 William Penn was a scholar of large cultivation, and in the constitution he prepared for the new colony, ample provis ion was made for maintaining schools for the education of theyouth and the law of 1683 contained a requirement that such schools should be established. There were schools, though probably not to a considera ble extent, under the rule of the Swedes and of the Dutch. The Constitution of 1776 provided that a school or schools shall be established in each county by the Legislature for the convenient instruction of youth, with such salaries to the masters, paid by the public, as may enable them to instruct youth at low prices. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.