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Education was once considered a privilege for only the upper class. However, during the 17th and 18th centuries, “education, literacy and learning” were gradually provided to “rich and poor alike”. [10] The literacy rate in Europe from the 17th century to the 18th century grew significantly.
Education in the Thirteen Colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries varied considerably. Public school systems existed only in New England. In the 18th Century, the Puritan emphasis on literacy largely influenced the significantly higher literacy rate (70 percent of men) of the Thirteen Colonies, mainly New England, in comparison to Britain (40 percent of men) and France (29 percent of men).
In late 17th-century Maryland, the Jesuits operated some schools for Catholic students. [28] In the deep south (Georgia and South Carolina), schooling was carried out primarily by private venture teachers, [29] in "old field schools, [30] and in a hodgepodge of publicly funded projects. In the colony of Georgia, at least ten grammar schools ...
Motivated by the religious needs of Puritan society and their own economic needs, some colonial women in 17th century rural New England opened small, private schools in their homes to teach reading and catechism to young children. An education in reading and religion was required for children by the Massachusetts School Law of 1642.
In Central Europe, the 17th-century scientist and educator John Amos Comenius promulgated a reformed system of universal education that was widely used in Europe. Its growth resulted in increased government interest in education.
The first public schools in America were established by the Puritans in New England during the 17th century. Boston Latin School was founded in 1635. [1] Boston Latin School was not funded by tax dollars in its early days, however.
In the early 17th century, around 20% of people in Wales were literate in Welsh or English. Jones and Roderick argue that the peasantry generally was not interested in literacy as it held little practical advantage for them. [15] Little formal education was available for girls during this period.
A carving of a seventeenth-century classroom with a dominie and his ten scholars, from George Heriot's School, Edinburgh. Education in early modern Scotland includes all forms of education within the modern borders of Scotland, between the end of the Middle Ages in the late fifteenth century and the beginnings of the Enlightenment in the mid-eighteenth century.