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Educational Reforms
Excerpt from the New England Primer of 1690
Prior to nineteenth-century reform, education was often the province of sectarian religious institutions, as evidenced in the religious bent of this popular textbook.
The excerpt contains six vertically stacked images. From top to bottom, the images depict Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden; The Holy Bible; a cat about to pounce on two mice; a dog chasing after a thief; an eagle in flight; and a student being whipped in a school yard. The accompanying poem reads: In Adam's fall/ We sinned all./ Thy life to mend, This Book attend./ The Cat doth play,/ And after slay./ A Dog will bite/ A thief at night./ An Eagle's flight/ Is out of sight./ The idle Fool/Is whipt at school."
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