 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1915 - 718 pages
...legislative expression in regard to schools in 11linois was in the ordinance of 1787, which declares that "religion, morality and knowledge being necessary...education shall forever be encouraged." This declaration grew, not out of philanthropic motives, but out of a consideration of the essentials of good government.... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1910 - 710 pages
...time definitely declared. The ordinance of 1787 for the government of the Northwest Territory declared that "religion, morality and knowledge being necessary...means of education shall forever be encouraged." This provision is no longer in force, having been superseded by the adoption of our constitution and the... | |
 | Andrew Ten Brook - 1875 - 434 pages
...provide for its government. This provision appears in the ordinance of 1787, in which it is declared that "religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary...means of education shall forever be encouraged." This ordinance was passed on the I3th of July, 1787, and on the 271h of the same month, Congress provided... | |
 | William Maxwell Blackburn - 1879 - 752 pages
...numbers. But this territory was covered by the ordinance of 1787, which provided, and still provides, that "religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary...means of education shall forever be encouraged." This was part of a compact which should "forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent." The intended... | |
 | 1915 - 1128 pages
...legislative expression in regard to schools In Illinois was in the ordinance of 1787, which declares that: "Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary...education shall forever be encouraged." This declaration grew, not out of philanthropic motives, but out of a consideration of the essentials of good government.... | |
 | University of Wisconsin - 1893 - 84 pages
...perpetual and ever present obligation upon all the states of the Northwest. It was in the declaration, that " Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary...means of education shall forever be encouraged." This provision, " forever to remain unaltered, except by general consent," as Daniel Webster said of it,... | |
 | 1900 - 181 pages
...sentiment, unquestionably, inspired the ambiguous language of the ordinance of 1787, which declares that "Religion, morality and knowledge, being necessary...means of education shall forever be encouraged." This has been construed by some as pledging the States formed from the Northwest Territory to the encouragement... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1903 - 762 pages
...Institute of Architects, who had been appointed to speak at this session, but who was unable to fill the engagement on account of illness. Following the...encouraged." This declaration of the fathers must come tq us now with newer and more solemn call when we remember that in many parts of our common country... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.). Meeting - 1904 - 1024 pages
...announcements, the convention adjourned to meet at 5 : 45 PM SEVENTH SESSION.— FRIDAY, JULY i, 5:45 p. M. The convention assembled for the closing vesper meeting...common country the fundamental questions of elementary education — local taxation, consolidation of weak schools, rational supervision, proper recognition... | |
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We cannot emphasize too often the educational creed first promulgated more than a century ago, that "religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be... 
