Products Description Author: Noah Webster

This book contains two historical reprints which Founder Noah Webster wrote to "enlighten the minds of youth in religious and moral principles and restrain some of the common vices of our country."

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Noah Webster was an influential Founding Father serving as a soldier during the American Revolution and as a legislator in two states after the Revolution. He was the first Founding Father to call for a Constitutional Convention and was personally responsible for the copyright clause found in Article I Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.

Like most of the Founding Fathers Webster understood that the ability of our new government to endure would depend upon the quality of our educational system. Consequently he became a leading educator and for six decades authored textbooks designed to transmit to subsequent generations the principles embodied in the government he had helped to create.

Two works he authored to help future generations were his Moral Catechism (1783) and later his Advice to the Young (1832) of which he explained:

"The Advise to the Young it is hoped will be useful in enligtening the minds of youth in religious and moral principles and serve in a degree to restrain some of the common vices of our country. . . . To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education."

These two powerful works are reprinted in this booklet and are beneficial not only for America's current students but for former students never exposed to these works in their school textbooks.

Paperback
53 pages

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