Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding. Job 28:28
The “Old Deluder Satan Act,” a Massachusetts law of 1647, states:
“It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue. . . . And that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers . . . the Lord assisting our endeavors . . . It is therefore ordered that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to fifty households shall forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children…to write and read.”