...required parents to "give religious instruction to their children and apprentices and bring them up in some honest lawful calling, labor or employment,...themselves and the commonwealth, if they will not or cannot train them up in learning to fit them for higher employment." Billerica could not at once...

...and bring vp theire Children and Apprentices in some honest lawful! [calling,] labour or imployment, either in husbandry, or some other trade profitable for themselves and the Common wealth, if they will not nor cannott traine them vp in Learning to fitt them for higher imployments."...

...university." The master of apprentices was to train them "in some honest lawful calling, labour or imployment, either in husbandry or some other trade profitable for themselves and the Commonwealth." This division of the function of education between the schoolmasters and the masters of apprentices...

...masters or any of the selectmen when they shall call them to a trial of what they have learned in this kind. And further, that all parents and masters do...their children and apprentices in some honest Lawful labor or employment, either in husbandry, or in some other trade profitable to themselves and the commonwealth,...

...different machinery of training and an absolutely different kind of governmental control. The law required that all parents and masters do breed and bring up...their children and apprentices in some honest lawful labor, or employment, either in husbandry or some other trade profitable for themselves and the commonwealth,...

...in such laws as the following for training in industrial lines. The Connecticut law of 1650 provides that "all parents and masters do breed and bring up...their children and apprentices in some honest lawful labor, or employment, either in husbandry or some other trade profitable for themselves and the commonwealth,...

...or masters, or any selectmen, when they shall call them to atrial of what they have learned in this kind; and further, that all parents and masters do...themselves and the commonwealth, if they will not nor can not train them up in learning, to fit them for higher employments, and if any of the selectmen,...

...enable them perfectly to read the English tongue and knowledge of the capital laws," and further " do breed and bring up their children and apprentices in some honest, lawful calling, labour or employment."1 Jf parents or masters neglected to give this intellectual or trade instruction,...

...may enable them to read perfect the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws. And farther, that all parents and masters do breed and bring up...children and apprentices in some honest lawful calling, labour or employment, either in husbandry or some other trade, profitable for themselves and the Commonwealth,...

...masters do breed and bring up their children and apprentices in some honest lawful calling, labour or employment, either in husbandry or some other trade,...themselves and the Commonwealth, if they will not or cannot train them up in learning, to fit them for higher employments.2 These injunctions were followed...