From the primary source textbook, the McGuffey Reader, as well as the textbook reading, you learned that Americans believed that education should teach __________ in addition to reading, writing, and arithmetic, for the purpose of __________.
It can be taken from this textbook that Americans believed that education should teach science in addition to reading, writing, and arithmetic, for the purpose of economic competition in the world. This is especially true when it comes to competition with China.
