The Poison Fountain, Or, Anti-parental Education: Essays and Discussions on the School Question from a Parental and Non-sectarian Standpoint : Wherein the Decline of Parental Authority, the Downfall of Family Government, and the Terrible Growth of Crime, Pauperism, Insanity and Suicides, in America, are Traced Directly and Unmistakably to Our Anti-parental Public School System

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Montgomery, 1878 - 188 strani
 

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Stran 163 - The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination or preference, shall forever be allowed in this State to all mankind; and no person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness on account of his opinions on matters of religious belief; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness, or justify practices inconsistent with the peace or safety...
Stran 13 - ... bodily or mental condition has been such as to prevent his attendance at school or application to study for the period required, or that such child or children are taught in a private school, or at home, in such branches as are usually taught in...
Stran 13 - Lord eighteen hundred and seventy-one, at least six weeks of which shall be consecutive, unless such child or children are excused from such attendance by the board of the school district in •which such parents...
Stran 12 - SECTION 1. Every parent, guardian, or other person in the state of California having control and charge of any child or children between the ages of eight and fourteen years, shall be required to send any such child or children to a public school for a period of at least...
Stran 14 - ... an education suitable to their station in life: a duty pointed out by reason, and of far the greatest importance of any. For, as Puffendorf, very well observes (j), it is not easy to imagine or allow, that a parent has conferred any considerable benefit upon his child by bringing him into the world, if he afterwards entirely neglects his culture and education, and suffers him to grow up like a mere beast, to lead a life useless to others, and shameful to himself.
Stran 14 - THE last duty of parents to their children is that of giving them an education suitable to their station in life : a duty pointed out by reason, and of far the greatest importance of any.
Stran 13 - In case a public school shall not be taught for three months during the year, within two miles by the nearest traveled road of the residence of any person within the school district, he shall not be liable to the provisions of this act.
Stran 12 - That every parent, guardian, or other person in the State of Michigan having control and charge of any child or children between the ages of eight and fourteen years, shall be required to send any such child or children to a public school for a period of at least twelve weeks in. each school year...
Stran 13 - ... attendance at school or application to study for the period required, or that such child or children are taught in a private school, or at home, in such branches as are usually taught in primary schools, or have...
Stran 3 - Massachusetts, by statute enacted in 1647, "each town, consisting of fifty householders, was directed to maintain a school to teach their children to read and write, and every town of one hundred families was to maintain a grammar school to fit youth for college.

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