Boys Education Quotes
Charles I, Charles the Great. By putting these ideas into the Frankish legal system Charlemagne established the basis of the free public school system, but used the Roman Catholic clerics to do the teaching as they were de facto the only educated group who could teach. This capitulary later was referred to as Charlemagne’s “Charter of Modern Thought”.
There are two things that make this quotation interesting, First it tells us about the educational gender discrimination in early Massachusetts. But not his phrase “light soon broke in”. He obviously saw the lack of education for girls as undesirable and unenlightened. But the fact that he had this attitude and would express is so readily in 1857 tells us that, at least in the Northeast girls’ education was assumed by many as part of civilized society.
