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- Puritans placed a strong emphasis on education at every age level for their offspring, beginning at home, with a primary reason for this being in order to read the Bible, which was used for spiritual and moral instruction. Puritan leaders themselves were accustomed to the highest educational standards, with most of their minsters having graduated from Oxford or Cambridge University in England, and soon established Boston Latin School as the first secondary school in the United State, and was modeled after the European Latin School Model, which emphasized the learning of religion, Latin, and classical literature.