ere people can pray on their own time, and feel a sense of separation between what went on in their everyday lives and what went on in their holy lives, but that is not the way it was.
             According to one view, in earlier days, children needed to be justified by Christianity and the children of light were waiting for the word of god to bring them to salvation, and that it was the duty of the colonists to teach them to read the bible and learn Christian ways. (Wright 135). In 1642 the general court passed a law that all masters of apprentices give their children in their care education enough to insure "their ability to read and understand the principles of religion and the capital law of the country" (Wright 137).
             The Church of England and other churches often operated primary schools in the United Kingdom, where students paid a small fee to study the bible, catechism, reading, writing and arithmetic. (Education in the 19th Century, "History of Education" 2). During the seventeenth century, there were church - sponsored schools
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