Liberty Counsel's "Head Start" Suggestion -- Boston 1690 Primer

The Christian legal rights advocacy group Liberty Counsel has a suggestion for your Merry Christmas giving. A school primer from a state so religiously conservative that had Jefferson held the Constitutional convention there, the Constitution would not have been ratified for lack of the word "God".

A Great Christmas Gift for Children:

The New England Primer is a good example of early American education. Introduced in the Boston public schools in 1690, for the next two centuries the New England Primer was a required textbook from which every first grader learned grammar and spelling. This little book taught first graders the alphabet using religious references. For the letter "A", the students learned, "In Adam's Fall, We sinned all." For the letter "C", the students recited: "Christ crucified, For sinners died."

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Hey, weren't those the days of one room school houses and education to the 6th (or was it the 8th) grade? How hard do you think it was for multi-grade home-school teachers to manage those rooms with few resources? Heck, faced with the same thing today one might turn to an empty feed bag to teach the alphabet; "A" is for "Antibiotic"...

Joking aside, the kind of education necessary to get started in a competitive, multi-national world economy should hardly start by learning this ditty: "A": "In Adam's Fall, We sinned all." Given the little time to get important foundational information into kid's heads, why would you start with philosophy instead of data, Adam = sin instead of Apple = fruit? My guess is so that you can raise an ideologically indoctrinated-- not practically educated-- child.