1674-1677 A colonial classroom in Plymouth Colony, children attentively listening to a teacher who is holding a book.
“For rigorous teachers seized my youth,
And purged its faith, and trimm’d its fire,
Show’d me the high white star of Truth,
There bade me gaze, and there aspire.”~ Matthew Arnold, Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse (1855), st. 12
Here is an Excellent Piece by W. H. Small titled ‘The New England Grammar School, 1635-1700.’ It is a fantastic Supplement to better acquaint oneself with how Schools functioned during this era in New England & its surroundings.
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1.55 Plymouth Colony School Laws