During the Enlightenment period, education was not only specified for knowledge of the ministry, it was also broadened to other areas of study. Colleges and institutions such as Harvard (1636), Yale (1701), and Princeton (1747) broadened their curriculum to include courses such as mathematics, natural science, law, and science. The Enlightenment philosophers such as John Locke, and Thomas Hobbes believed in free education. Locke stated in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1

690) that people are not born with innate ideas but rather acquire knowledge, opinion and behavior from sense experience. Younger children though were not required attend school, took the initiative of learning how to read, the basics of writing, and simple arithmetic in their own homes. Even enslaved children were taught the rudiments. Though the Great Awakening was more so a religious movement, it also had its own implications for education. Individual Revival, which rejected the cold rationalism of Puritanism and Anglicanism, resulted from the Great Awakening. This ideal taught the importance of education through one’s heart rather than biblical documentation. This movement also brought about the creation of new colleges. Princeton, Brown, and Dartmouth Universities are amongst the prestigious institutions established during this time period. Both the Enlightenment and Great Awakening periods enforced the importance of proper education for all. Our society today still firmly believes in the significance of education by requiring that all children learn how to read and write before during their preliminary years of school.

The Government implemented in both the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening greatly

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