Get a FREE copy of “The New England Primer”
The New England Primer was the first textbook ever printed in America and was used to teach reading and Bible lessons in our schools until the twentieth century.
Scholars agree that most, if not all, of the Founding Fathers were taught to read and write using The New England Primer, a textbook which is unsurpassed to this day for its excellence of practical training.
First published in 1690, the goal of the Primer was to combine the study of the Bible with the alphabet, vocabulary, and the reading of prose and poetry. This is the book that introduced the children’s prayer, “Now I lay me down to sleep,” and which made the “Shorter Catechism” a staple of education for American children. More than five million copies were sold in the nineteenth century alone!
In the early colonial period, reading the Bible was the primary reason and motivation for learning to read. For example, in 1647, the “Old Deluder Act” was passed by the Massachusetts General Court required every township with 50 or more families to hire a teacher.
Similar legislation quickly spread to the other New England colonies, being the first step towards compulsory education. The preamble was explicit that knowledge of the Scriptures was the chief goal, and that “one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, [is] to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures.
This is a reprint of the 1777 version used in many schools during the Founding Era. A great resource for homeschoolers or for use in any classroom.
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I would love to read this book! The thoughts and processes of our founding fathers is of interest to me! I feel any book educating us and our children about God, scripture and beating Satan is worth our time!
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I don’t have a website. My mother was a teacher and I would really like to read this. Our ground roots were learned through this primer.
For those saying they would like to read this – the last paragraph under the description has a link to the book – if you RIGHT click and click on SAVE TARGET AS you can save the PDF file to your computer to read later. This includes other ebooks this site offers to read – link is always in the last paragraph. And, thanks Fed Papers for offering this historical documents!
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Compulsory education was the first step in replacing any personal belief in a deity with worship of the State uber alles. Bit by bit, education was transformed, dumbed down, and bent to the purposes of glorifying the government. This was no accident; the moment the government was permitted to take responsibility for education, the die was cast.
Google John Taylor Gatto and the Underground History of American Education.
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