The European colonists in North America re-created
conventional European educational institutions based on social-class patterns.
Primary or vernacular schools for the lower socioeconomic strata of society
provided a basic curriculum of reading, writing, arithmetic, and religion.
Preparatory schools, such as the Latin grammar school and the colonial college,
reserved for upper-class boys and men, provided a classical curriculum to
prepare them for leadership roles in church, state, and society.
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