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Law on primary education adopted
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Silver medal. Obverse: philosopher, representing Education, holds in his raised right hand a crowned, radiant mirror, surrounded by a ribbon with a legend, and lays his left hand on the head of a boy standing next to him, who leans on the altar of the Netherlands and holds a paper with a legend in his hand; left: Ignorance flees, represented as a woman crowned with poppy heads, over rocks and thorns, while above her head a bat hovers; right: helmeted Minerva with a bundle of arrows and olive branch in hands within an inscription; section: legend. Reverse: legend.
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Credit lineWet op het lager onderwijs aangenomen. 1857. Moses Cohen de Vries junior. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.