books.google.com - The reading of the school also changed both in character and purpose. In other words, in place of an elementary education based on reading, a little writing and spelling, and the catechism, all of a memoriter type and with religious ends in view, a new primary school, essentially secular in character,...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_History_of_Education.html?id=sYTfTmwcNP0C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe History of Education
