Each age teaches with the best methods available to them. Who are they? For example, when the New-England Primer was written, they believed it was best for children. There were no other means of teaching children. In the past, children tended to learn their ABCs, spelling, and religious content through memorization. However, nowadays Dr. Seuss's ABC is a book that parents have the opportunity to choose; they have the resources to choose other books to read to their children to teach them their ABCs. ←------ A little confusing. The most notable feature is that the book emphasizes imaginative play. Just a suggestion. Both books are aimed at a certain audience, have different alphabetical sections, and both Puritan and current parents want different results. Both (repetitive) parents want their children to learn something in particular from the book they are reading. Both (repetitive) construct the identity of children and child-readers differently, due to the era in which they find themselves. You use the word BOTH a lot. Maybe use another word. The New-England Primer was applied as a text that taught children to read and write. The book combined religious indoctrination with instruction in literacy and usually contained an alphabet, a syllabary, prayers, hymns, catechisms, woodcuts, and questions and answers on religious doctrine. Ultimately, primers were used from the 17th to the 19th century. According to Watters (1885), the “Primer defines for the child his place in relation to the figures of parental, civil and religious authority”. Going further, as your child learns religious metaphors, they have the opportunity to learn about their place in the world… in the middle of paper… they begin to modify books, lessons, and activities. in what will help them learn best. In the early 17th century people knew nothing about how children learned. They didn't have the resources to develop research on children. The Primer was the form of teaching them morals, ABCs and their religious beliefs, because they had no information on how children learned. What we know today has changed the way children are taught. We have no right to judge them for how they taught their children, because for them that was the best thing. All we can do is learn from what we consider their mistakes. What we teach children and how we teach them is what we think is best. As society grows and new studies are conducted, our form of teaching changes. Each generation has different input and chooses to grow on what is already known or invent a completely new way of teaching.