When the Puritans came to America they strived on educating their children in a more proficient way. Better education would help enhance their way of living. There are many ways that the Puritan view of education is similar and different as to what we have today in America. There are similarities between the way that the Puritans viewed education and the way that Americans do today. Puritan students went to school first just as our students do today in order to prepare themselves for college. The first thing Americans learn today in school is how to read and write. We are taught reading and writing first because it is the basis of all future studies. The Puritans mainly focused on just reading and writing in school. Some schools around the
