The building which housed Clara Barton in her efforts for popular education is still standing along with other historic landmarks.
Bordentown (N. J.) Register.
If you will let me try, I will teach the children free for six months. Clara Barton.
I thank God that we have no free schools—in the colony—and I hope we shall not have these hundred years.
Governor Berkeley of Virginia in 1670.
The first incorporation to provide free schools, under the provisions of the State, was passed in New York in 1805.
The Modern School System.
The basis of free government is in education; in a republic the hope of the millions is the free public school.
The Two Republics.
The hope of all modern civilization is the public free school.