Massachusetts+Act+of+1642+B

=Have teachers always taught children?=

__Made Education the States Responsibility__ __Idea Behind the Act__ __Importance of Act__ __Historical Themes__
 * No funded or required schools
 * Parents and Mentors responsible for education
 * required to teach basic education and literacy
 * If parents or mentors failed to educate children, they would be taken and placed in a home where they would receive adequate instruction
 * If all citizens could understand written language they would be able to understand and abide all laws
 * protect Puritan religion
 * this act was the start of education
 * led to the 1647 act which established the first schools
 * Evolving curriculum- children were for the first time required to learn to read and write
 * Who gets taught- male children
 * Who should teach- parents and mentors
 * Why school- give children a basic education so they understand laws and written religious codes

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