Dr. Shattuck’s handwritten account of the Founding of St. Paul’s School, which was later to be published in Memorials of St. Paul’s School (1891).

Dr. Shattuck was born in Boston, July 22, 1813, and, after several years in the schools there, was sent to Round Hill School, Northampton, Massachusetts. The impressions formed there influenced him afterwards, when, there being no longer such schools in the country, he was led to found St. Paul’s School for his boys and others.

Dr. Shattuck thought that while the intellect can be trained and the mind furnished at a day school, “physical and moral culture can best be carried on where boys live with and are constantly under the supervision of the teachers, and in the country….Green fields and trees, streams and ponds, beautiful scenery, flowers and minerals are educators. The things which are seen are very valuable, and may be used to teach of Him who made them, and thus of the things unseen. Religious teaching and training for beings such as we are is all important. The things of this world are engrossing; but boys [young people] ought to be trained, not only for this life, but so as to enter into and enjoy eternal and unseen realities.”

Dr. Shattuck’s writings set forth the ideals and purposes which led him to found St. Paul’s School, and which still guide the School today: