United States History: Heritage of Freedom Quiz 4, page 2
10. According to the following section of Harvard University's original “Rules and
Precepts," why did Harvard's founders want to encourage education?
"Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well,
the main end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ, which is
eternal life and therefore lay Christ in the bottom, as the only foundation of all
sound knowledge and learning."
a. to ensure as many colonists as possible were prepared for the workforce
b. to encourage morality in colonial life
c. to teach colonists to base all their knowledge on God
d. to give colonists an ability to interpret God's will