 | New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - 1995 - 464 páginas
...jury, or the equal distribution of estates. The clause so often recited in onr local controversies, that "religion, morality and knowledge being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged," was not there. In short, the bill which finally passed on the 13th of July, and has since been regarded... | |
 | Philip A. Greasley - 2001 - 680 páginas
...in the evolving Midwest. This faith is reflected in the clause in the Ordinance of 1787 that states that "Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged" (The Old Northwest 271). Even earlier, the allocation in the Land Ordinance of 1785 states that "there... | |
 | Southern Educational Association - 1901
...high appreciation, when, in the ordinance of 1787 for the government of the north-west territory, it declared that "religion, morality, and knowledge being...the means of education shall be forever encouraged. " In those states of the South and West which have claimed and received the heritage vouchsafed in... | |
 | 1883
...set apart for the maintenance of common schools, this action being accompanied with the declaration that "religion, morality and knowledge being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged." The States which have received the sixteenth section under this law are, Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana,... | |
 | 1892
...crystallized, a national grant of land was made for the maintenance of public schools, the act declaring that " religion, morality and knowledge being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged." Since then, about 140,000,000 acres of the public lands have been donated to the States for the purpose.... | |
 | 1888
...establishment of institutions such as the Woman's Medical College, by declaring under that ordinance that, " Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged." To-day, surrounded on all sides by evidences of progress, in a year crowned with the association of... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1838
...most permanent influence on Ohio, is the system of common schools. The Ordinance of 1787 provided, that, "religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary...mankind, schools and the means of education shall be for ever encouraged." In the previous Ordinance of 1785, regulating the sale of lands in the West,... | |
 | 1922
..."maintenance of public schools." The Ordinance of 1787 creating the Northwest Territory provided that "Schools and the means of education shall be forever encouraged." From that time down to the present the National Government has recognized education as an important interest... | |
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RELIGION, MORALITY and KNOWLEDGE, being necessary to good government, and the happiness of mankind, SCHOOLS, AND THE MEANS OF EDUCATION, SHALL BE FOREVER ENCOURAGED. 
