...free schools, and he said — I thank God there are no free schools. I hope we shall not have them these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world. Governor Berkeley doubtless gaged correctly, by his own standards, the effects of education. Freedom...

...William Berkeley, who served from 1041 to 1077 as Virginia's Governor : "... I thank God, there arc no 'free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have those hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world,...

...bluntly stated the •ationalf in these words : "I thank God there are no free schools nor printing. . For learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world ind printing has divulged them and libels against the best government. God teep us from both." To be...

...Virginia who said in 1670: "I thank God there are no free schools, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years, for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world." Less well known is the fact that Karl Marx at the other end of the political spectrum was equally opposed...

...there are no free schools nor printing presses here ; and. I hope, that we shall not have them here these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience...and heresy and sects into the world, and printing hath divulged them in libels against the best governments. God keep us from both."a Such was the general...

...of the ruling classes was the famous remark of the royal governor of Virginia, Sir William Berkeley: "But, I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these for a hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and...

...the colony governor reported to the Commissioners of Trade and Plantations that education languished. "But, I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these for a hundred years," Berkeley wrote, "for learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects...

...Virginia Governor Berkeley applauded the absence of printing presses in his colony: "I thank God. we have no free schools nor printing; and I hope we shall not have these [fora] hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world; and...

...expressed deep-seated anxieties about the impact of the press. "I thank God, there are no freeschools, nor printing; and I hope we shall not have, these hundred years," Virginia's governor, William Berkeley, reported to his London superiors in 1671. "For learning has...

...The most famous discouragement of printing is that by Governor William Berkeley of Virginia in 1671: "I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing,...disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and print has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both." Fourteen years...