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Conservatives (including sociologists who followed the structural functionalism school) saw the study as a confirmation that a lack of change is good for society. Critics of American culture, such as H. L. Mencken and Sinclair Lewis, author of Babbitt, cited the Middletown studies as examples of the banality and shallowness of American life.
It established local schools in 1647. Every town was to "appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read." The teacher's wages were usually paid by the town. Larger towns had to set up a grammar school that would enable graduates to attend Harvard College. Watertown paid its teacher £30 a year. [9]
Elementary education was widespread in New England. Early Puritan settlers believed that it was necessary to study the Bible, so children were taught to read at an early age. It was also required that each town pay for a primary school. About 10 percent enjoyed secondary schooling and funded grammar schools in larger towns.
The town remained insular during the early years, with the community remaining self contained. With a small population, a simple and agrarian economy, and the free distribution of large tracts of land, there was very little disparity in wealth. As the town grew, new towns broke off from Dedham, beginning with Medfield in 1651. With the division ...
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.
The Middle Colonies were a subset of the Thirteen Colonies in British America, located between the New England Colonies and the Southern Colonies. Along with the Chesapeake Colonies , this area now roughly makes up the Mid-Atlantic states .
Dive deeper into Eckhart Tolle's transformative book, ... Reading group discussion guide for Oprah's book club pick, "A New Earth" Analisa Novak. January 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM.
By the 1650s, Middle Plantation began to look both populated and wealthy. Colonel John Page, a merchant who had emigrated from Middlesex, England with his wife Alice Lucken Page in 1650, was largely responsible for building Middle Plantation into a substantial town. In an era of wooden buildings, brick was a sign of both wealth and permanence.