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For some reason, most of the colonists thought that boys needed more education than girls.

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Often wealthy planters hired tutors to educate younger children at home. There were children that had to go to different cities or even back to England to get their education.

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In Massachusetts, villages with 50 or more families had to get a public school. Other towns in the New England colony were later all required to build a school whenever they had 100 or more people there.

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Religious individuals made it more difficult for children to get a proper education by building more churches than schools, forcing the parents to teach most of the time.

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While there weren't many regular schools, there were still church schools.

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The schools were one-room buildings with a chimney and fireplace in the center. There was nothing to write on so instead of using pencil and paper, they used ink and bark.

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Common things like pencils and paper were scarce back then. parents were asked to contribute many materials to the village school, since the school hadn't been able to get the materials on their own.