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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).
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All the New England colonies required towns to set up schools. The Mayflower Pilgrims made a law in Plymouth Colony that each family was responsible to teach their children how to read and write, for the express purpose of reading the Bible. In 1642, the Massachusetts Bay Colony made education compulsory, and other New England colonies followed.
In the colonial era, it was the most active Church missionary organization, with 170 missionary stations oriented toward Native Americans, and white backcountry pioneers. It hired 98 teachers for the children of parishioners, as well as children of poor whites. They focused on the principles of religion and the three Rs. The SPG was expelled ...
Generally the planter class hired tutors for the education of their children or sent them to private schools. During the colonial years, some sent their sons to England or Scotland for schooling. [2] In March 1620, George Thorpe sailed from Bristol for Virginia. He became a deputy in charge of 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) of land to be set aside for ...
During this time period, reading and writing were taught separately, and it was more common for both girls and boys to learn to read, and for just boys to learn to write. [11] Even so, during the eighteenth century a rising movement discouraged working-class children from learning to write, so in some cases dame school pupils may not have been ...
Mortality was very high for new arrivals, and high for children in the colonial era. [114] [115] Malaria was deadly to many new arrivals in the Southern colonies. For an example of newly arrived able-bodied young men, over one-fourth of the Anglican missionaries died within five years of their arrival in the Carolinas. [116]
The New England Primer. The New England Primer was the first reading primer designed for the American colonies.It became the most successful educational textbook published in 17th-century colonial United States and it became the foundation of most schooling before the 1790s.