A.hard work
B. thrift
C. piety
D. sobriety
The author implies that an early American Puritan would likely insist that ______.
A.moral and religious values are the foundation of civic virtue
B.textbooks should instruct students in political issues of vital concern to the community
C.textbooks should give greater emphasis to the value of individual liberty than to the duties of patriotism
D.private schools with a particular religious focus are preferable to public schools with no religious instruction
The founders, as was the case of almost all their successors, were long on exhortation and rhetoric regarding the value of civic education, but they left it to the textbook writers to distill the essence of those values for school children. Texts in American history and government appeared as early as the 1790s. The textbook writers turned out to be very largely of conservative persuasion, more likely Federalist in outlook than Jeffersonian, and almost universally agreed that political virtue must rest upon moral and religious precepts. Since most textbook writers were New Englanders, this meant that the texts were infused with Protestant, and above all, Puritan outlooks.
In the first half of the Republic, civic education in the schools emphasized the inculcation of civic values and made little attempt to develop participatory political skills. That was a task left to incipient political parties, town meetings, churches, and the coffee or ale houses, where men gathered for conversation. Additionally, as a reading of certain Federalist papers of the period would demonstrate, the press probably did more to disseminate realistic as well as partisan knowledge of government than the schools. The goal of education, however, was to achieve a higher form. of unum for the new Republic. In the middle half of the nineteenth century, the political values taught in the public and private schools did not change substantially from those celebrated in the first fifty years of the Republic. In the textbooks of the day, their rosy hues if anything became golden. To the resplendent values of liberty, equality, and a benevolent Christian morality were now added the middle-class virtues- especially of New England-of hard work, honesty and integrity, the rewards of individual effort, and obedience to parents and legitimate authority. But of all the political values taught in school, patriotism was preeminent; and whenever teachers explained to school children why they should love their country above all else, the idea of liberty assumed pride of place.
The passage deals primarily with the ______.
A.content of early textbooks on American history and government
B.role of education in late eighteenth and early mid-nineteenth century America
C.influence of New England Puritanism on early American values
D.origin and development of the Protestant work ethic in modern America
A、Franklin was a Puritan
B、Franklin was born in a Puritan family
C、it was a record of self-examination
D、it was written during the Colonial Period
A、Roman Catholic churches
B、Protestant churches
C、Puritan churches
D、Eastern Orthodox churches
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