How Did Colonial American Views on Education Change with Time

question 51

Multiple Choice

How did colonial American views on education change with time?

• A) American colonists came to embrace education as essential training for citizenship.
• B) It became increasingly important to Americans that their best and brightest attend the leading English universities at Oxford and Cambridge.
• C) American colonists moved away from the English view that education should be reserved for an aristocratic few.
• D) Americans came to see education as unimportant beyond primary school.
• E) Southern colonists inspired the other regions in establishing a broad system of public education.

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