Excerpt from The Technical History of Commerce: Or Skilled Labour Applied to Production
"The first direct compulsory law relating to education in this kingdom that I have met with in my studies was passed by James IV. of Scotland, in 1494. He ordained that all sons of freeholders and barons should go to school under penalty, and that their eldest sons, who were to have the estates, should, after their preliminary examination, attend three years at a school of law, in order that they might administer, discreetly and wisely, justices' justice to the poor folk of the realm. It is a pity that this compulsory law does not still exist for eldest sons! You see in it the idea that education should be adapted to the work of life. This main idea of fitting a man for his work was vigorously supported by our old reformers. John Knox held firmly by it, especially in his scheme for secondary education, which, unfortunately for Scotland, was never adopted, though his plan for primary education was. In the former he announced that no boys should leave school till they had devoted a proper time to 'that study which they intend chiefly to pursue for the profit of the commonwealth.' This is the old conception of the object of education, and reappears at the Present clay under the modem garb of 'Technical Education.' All the reformers urged its necessity, especially Luther and Melancthon. Most European states have held fast to the idea, with more or less of development, but it has vanished utterly from our English schools."
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