"Cremin (1970) stresses that colonists tried at first to educate by the traditional English methods of family, church, community, and apprenticeship, with schools later becoming the key agent in "socialization." At first, the rudiments of literacy and arithmetic were taught inside the family, assuming the parents had those skills. The first free taxpayer-supported public school in North America, the Mather School, was opened in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1639. Boston Latin School was founded in 1635 and is both the first public school and oldest existing school in the United States. The first American schools in the thirteen original colonies opened in the 17th century.
See also: Education in the Thirteen Colonies, Latin school § Latin schools in colonial North America and the USA, and Neo-Latin § Latin in school education 1500-1700 New England
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