Commerce of the Prairies: Or, the Journal of a Santa Fe Trader, During Eight ... 1
Commerce of the Prairies: Or, the Journal of a Santa Fe Trader, During Eight ... 1
Gregg, Josiah, 1806-1850
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From the earUest time down to the seces- sion of the coloniefss it was always the poUcy of the Spanish Govemment as well as of the papal hierarchy, to keep every avenue of knowledge closed against their subjects of the New World ; lest the lights of civil and religious liberty should reach them from their neighbors of the North. Although a system of pubUc schools was afterwards adopted by the repubUc, which, if persevered in, would no doubt have contributed to the dissemina- tion of useful know...ledge, yet its operaticms had to be suspended about ten years s^o, for want of the necessary funds to carry out the original project It is doubtful, however, whether the habitual neglect and utter care- lessness of the people, already too much in- ured to grope their way in darkness and in ignorance, added to the inefficiency of thq teachers, would not eventually have neutralized all the good that such an institution was cal- culated to effect The only schools now in existence, are of the lowest primary class, sup- ported entirely by individual patronage, the Uberal extension of which, may be inferred from the fact, that at least three-fourths of the present peculation can neither read nor write.
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