Show Some Early Schools One of tho first laws passed in America in the interest of tion was enacted by Massa- Massa Mass Chu Bay Colon Colony in 1647 and ai required TC all towns of 50 or more householders to appoint a teacher teach er to 10 instruct children to read and ai write No special qualifications were set for teachers and the pay pi was miserably small Even before this law was pass pass- pas d dedham Mass hada had a free chool supported by taxation the I teacher receiving a year r In most cases however the paid a portion portion- of the expense and id the pupils made up the remainder through tuition fees The record of one school shows that t the tuition charge was 6 67 cents for three months i Closely following Massachusetts similar schools schoos were established in inthe the Connecticut colonies and in 1657 the New Haven colonial court ordered that each town not already maintaining a school should open op one and pay pa pays third one-third of its ext ex expenses x peng the rest to be paid on a aper aper per capita basis b by families served sen Plymouth Colony later on provid provided provided ed school money by hy leasing its 1 fisheries on the coast thus raising about a year In New Amster Amsterdam Amsterdam r dam now New York the first gt schools were supported by the West India Company but buti controlled controlled ed by the Dutch Reformed Church Chun There was also dame schools taught by women in their homes 4 these teachers re receiving as little as-little as ag 10 shillings or a year In Ii 1862 the salary or of President Rog Rog- Rogers ers of Harvard University was fix fix- fixed fix fixed ed at a year third one one oi of or which was paid in provisions provision or oi other goods In the early elementary scho schools school only reading writing and the Bible ale were tau taught ht those who desired to learn arithmetic being obIl obliged d to resort to a 8 special I ciphering master |