12 The idea of “public” education appears in Thomas Shepard, Eye-Salve (Cambridge, 1673).
13 Margery Somers Foster, “Out of Small Beginnings …” An Economic History of Harvard College in the Puritan Period (Cambridge, 1962), 88; Morison, The Founding of Harvard College; and Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century (2 vols., Cambridge, 1936).
14 Morison quoted Cotton Mather’s complaint against “the too general want of Education in the Rising Generation; which, if not prevented, will gradually dispose us, to a sort of Criolian degeneracy”; Cotton Mather, The Way to Prosperity (Boston, 1690), 33-34; quoted in Morison, Puritan Pronaos, 75.