McGuffey's Readers were used almost in every grade school in the United States for about one hundred years. While teaching the three "R's" (reading,
writing, and
arithmetic), these
McGuffey Fourth Eclectic Reader publications had one out of every four stories had Biblical narrations with titles like:
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Because of an increasing
secular humanist trend that developed through the
20th Century in society and also the
school systems it has become the
a priori,
prevalent norm in this
21st Century. Today, these kinds of educational materials are mostly exclusively used in
private Christian schools, and by homeschoolers.
| source: America in Prophecy, Jack Van Impe |