The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c5.s17.8
The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c5.s17.8
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c5.s17.8
7. Some children continue at school only five years, the parents, through poverty, or other circumstances, being often obliged to take them away, and consequently, in such cases, the merest smattering of an education is obtained; and when parents take a lively interest in the culture of their children’s minds, they not infrequently continue at school as long as fourteen and fifteen years.