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Forms of schooling ranged from dame schools to “ Latin ” schools for boys already literate in English and ready to master preparatory grammar for Latin, Hebrew, and Greek.
Reading schools would often be the single source of education for girls, whereas boys would go to the town grammar schools.
Indeed, gender largely determined educational practices: women introduced all children to reading, and men taught boys in higher pursuits.
Since girls could play no role in the ministry, and since grammar schools were designed to “ instruct youth so far as they may be fited for the university ,” Latin grammar schools did not accept girls ( nor did Harvard ).
Most evidence suggests that girls could not attend the less ambitious town schools, the lower-tier writing-reading schools mandated for townships of over fifty families.

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