Why did the New England Puritans consider education important! So they could become better farmers
So they could read newspapers of the period
So they could write letter to send back home to England and read those sent
back in reply
so they could read the Bible
I do not know this answer

so they could write letter send back home to England and read those sent back in reply. I think

polisit can also mean a body of citizens. in modern historiography, polis is normally used to indicate the ancient greek city-states, like classical athens and its contemporaries, and thus is often translated as "city-state". the body of citizens came to be the most important meaning of the term polis in ancient greece.