ABSTRACT
"The history of education," said Bernard Bailyn, "should consider not only schools and 'formal pedagogy,' but the entire process by which a culture transmits itself across the generations." As New Englanders gradually relinquished their grand vision of creating a new holy commonwealth, they worked their way back into the mainstream of British-American social and cultural development. American Education subsequent legislation pertaining to the educational obligations of families and communities made clear their valiant efforts to overcome religious and cultural degeneracy. Educational policies and practices in the Chesapeake and coastal Carolina colonies were also shaped by deliberate attempts to transplant familiar English customs and institutions to the new world. The American colonies eventually forged a new nation by moving away from, rather than toward, the New England model of social and religious conformity. Numerous sermons preached on behalf of the backers of the colonization scheme emphasized the need for settlers whose concerns were Godly rather than worldly.
