The School Upon a Hill

The School Upon a Hill is the first attempt to portray a view of education that in the authors words enables us to see the educational process if not actually through childrens eyes at least from their position in a Lilliputian universe. Its subject is socialization: the ways in which children in colonial New England were educated for life in societywhether it was the family the church or the larger communityand what they were taught that transformed them from cultureless newborns into functioning obedient and cooperative members of a distinctive society and culture.