William H. McGuffey taught many children the basic fundamentals of reading through his stories. Children who lived in rural areas and went to one-room schoolhouses read his stories. These stories had substance and taught children of the 19th and early 20th centuries important values. These values include honesty, obedience, charity, and hard work. Some of values McGuffey teaches are taught today in school and some are not.
McGuffey taught children variety of different values in his stories. He teaches th