Kett's SPOTD 11- 19 -11

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These demonstrators, the liberal press, the progessive political movement, and the current President of the United States have all come from an educational system, birthed in the Gospel for the presevation of the Constitution, that has degenerated into atheistic evolution for the promotion of socialistic revolution and the overthrow of Christianity through anarchy.
Princeton: New Light Presbyterians founded the College of New Jersey, later Princeton University, in 1746 in order to train ministers dedicated to their views. The college was the educational and religious capital of Scotch-Irish America.

Yale: Yale traces its beginnings to "An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School", passed by the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut on October 9, 1701 in an effort to create an institution to train ministers and lay leadership for Connecticut.

Harvard: It was named after John Harvard, a young English clergyman from Southwark, London, an alumnus of the University of Cambridge (after which Cambridge, Massachusetts is named), who bequeathed the College his library of four hundred books and £779 pounds sterling, which was half of his estate. The charter creating the corporation of Harvard College came in 1650. In the early years, the College trained many Puritan ministers. The college offered a classic academic course based on the English university model—many leaders in the colony had attended Cambridge University—but one consistent with the prevailing Puritan philosophy.

Columbia: Discussions regarding the founding of a college in the Province of New York began as early as 1704, when Colonel Lewis Morris wrote to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, the missionary arm of the Church of England, persuading the society that New York City was an ideal community in which to establish a college.​
Reformation Christianity birthed the Declaration of Independence, freedom of religious practice, freedom of speech, limited government, the distribution of wealth through free enterprise (capitalism).

--Dave

Great post! All too many people ignore the historical roots of our educational institutions. Way to go Dave!
 
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