Consider the schools in the New England colonies–Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire–during the colonial period. Which of the following statements is most valid?

a. The colonies were religiously diverse, so each colony created parochial schools for the children of the colony.
b. Because many people worked in towns that had industry and commerce, families collaborated to hire tutors for several families' children.
c. Because many people came from working class, rather than aristocratic, backgrounds, education was more egalitarian than in the Middle and Southern colonies.
d. Education focused primarily on religious training, which was grounded in the belief that humanity was evil, by its nature, having fallen in the sin of Adam and Eve.


d

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