Even in the Protestant countries. where there was a less close identification of Church and State. the basis of education was largely the Bible. and its chief purpose inculcation of piety. To the extent that the State intervened. it used its authority to further aims of the Church. The emigrants who came to these shores brought this view of education with them. Colonial schools certainly started with a religious orientation. When the common problems of the early settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony revealed tae need for common schools. the object was the defeat of "one chief project of that old deluder.
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