Who believed in education so a person could read the Bible in The Witch of Blackbird Pond?

This is quite an indirect question. Having re-read the
text, I think the one reference that could answer this would be the conversation that
Kit has with John Holbrook in Chapter Two when John expresses his surprise about her
ability to read. The surprise of John Holbrook is compounded and turned into shock when
Kit tells him that she used to read history, poetry and plays. In response to this
outrage, John Holbrook responds with his idea of what reading is
for:

"There
are no such books in Saybrook. In Boston, perhaps. But the proper use of reading is to
improve our sinful nature, and to fill our minds with God's holy
word."

The value of
education, therefore, to the mind of John Holbrook and others like him, is only so that
we can read and study the word of God and by so doing, "improve our sinful
nature."