European immigrants to Colonial America brought with them their culture, traditions and philosophy about education. Much of the formal educationing【M1】______ system in the United States are rooted in the European or Western belief sys-【M2】______ tern. Though an indigenous population of Native Americans lived in the【M3】______ North American continent, their influence on the development of formal educational practice in America was maximal. Many tribes had not yet devel-【M4】______ oped writing or a system of formal educational practice. The English were the predominant settlers in the New World and as a result of education in colonial America was patterned on the English model. It【M5】______ originally developed like a two-track system with people from the lower clas-【M6】______ ses receiving minimal instruction and only learning to read and write, calculate and receive religious instruction. The upper classes were allowed pursue【M7】______ an education beyond the basics and often attended Latin grammar or secondary schools where they learned Greek and Latin and studied the classics in preparation for a college education. Religion played the important role in developing an educational system in【M8】______ the United States. The Puritans, a strict fundamentalist Protestant which im-【M9】______ migrated to the New World for religious freedom beginning in 1609, believed that education was necessary in order to read the Bible to receive salvation. This was in line with the beliefs of the Protestant Reformers. Their schools made no distinction between religious and secular life and were also used to inspiring children to endure the hardships of a life in the New World through【M10】______ religious devotion. 【M1】