Chapters 5 and 6 of EDUC 190

Education in colonial America reflected a _______.

• concern for religious objectives
• desire to meet individual needs 
• concern for the whole child 
• focus on freedom of speech 

The Puritan view of the child included the belief that _____.

• all men are created good but corrupted by society 
• humankind has little hope of spiritual salvation 
• people are inherently sinful
• play is to be encouraged in young children

The “horn book” was _______. 

• made from cow’s horn 
• developed in China
• a tool for teaching basic mathematics 
• written in cuneiform

The primary purpose of the Latin grammar school was to _______.

• provide the basics of reading, writing, and computation
• provide religious instruction
• provide vocational training
• prepare students for college 

The Massachusetts Act of 1642 was significant in that it made education a responsibility of the _____.

• parents
• state
• colony
• school board 

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the education of girls _______.

• was nonexistent
• focused on the development of skilled metaphysical reasoning
• focused on the duties of the home 
• emphasized scholarship in physical science 

Thomas Jefferson believed that _______.

• a country that wished to remain free had to provide an education for the people
• schools should be supported by the wealthy
• schools should be supported by parents
• the curriculum should emphasize the "ornamental"  

The book that was given the name "the old blue-back" 

• Noah Webster’s American Spelling Book
• the New England Primer
• the McGuffy Reader
• Jefferson’s Encyclopedia

Horace Mann is probably best known as a promoter of the _______. 

• academy
• college-prep academy
• common school 
• university

Stories such as “The Wolf,” “Meddlesome Matty,” and “A Kind Brother” are examples of the _____.

• normal school series 
• McGuffey readers 
• Webster’s series
• Mann’s readers