...university.'' The master of apprentices was to train them "in some honest lawful calling, labour or imployment, either in husbandry or some other trade profitable for themselves and the Commonwealth." This division of the function of education between the schoolmasters and the masters of apprentices...

...in some honest Lawful labor or employment, either in husbandry, or in some other trade profitable to themselves and the commonwealth, if they will not...not train them up in learning to fit them for higher employments. And if any of the selectmen, after admonition by them given to such masters of families,...

...required to see that his children were instructed “in some honest lawful calling, labor or employment, either in husbandry, or some other trade profitable for themselves and the commonwealth.” 5 ' Benjamin Wadsworth said that parents should bring children “up to business, some lawful employment,”...

...breed and bring up their children and apprentices in some honest lawful calling, labor, or employment, either in husbandry or some other trade, profitable...themselves and the commonwealth, if they will not or cannot train them up in learning to fit them for higher employments. " And if any of the selectmen,...

...week, they were legally obliged to instruct them "in some honest lawful calling, labour or imployment, either in husbandry, or some other trade profitable...themselves, and the Common-wealth if they will not or cannot train them up in learning to fit them for higher imployments." Fathers who defaulted on any...

...in some honest lawful calling “profitable for themselves and the commonwealth,” if their parents “will not or can not train them up in learning to fit them for higher employments.” Neglect of parental duty “whereby children and servantsbecome rude, stubborn and...