1. education

2. Background
CYurky
Homer-Center
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3. Middle Ages during Middle Ages, reading was not important
education preserved in monasteries
Kings hired monks as clerics to read for them

4. Renaissance
during the Renaissance, education became important again

5. colonies most colonists learned to read
in education was important to all regions
most colonists learned to read
education provided opportunity to succeed

6. New England

7. religion basis for education
ability to read defense against evil (Puritan ideals)
only books allowed were religious ones (Bible frequently used)

8. New England Primer

9. Public Education town with 50 families had to hire a teacher
town with 100 families had to build a school
as religious influence declined, so did emphasis on religion in school

10. Subjects
Reading
Writing
Arithmetic
religion
Latin

11. Middle

12. Church based schools no public schools Quakers opposed taxes
church based private schools
each town had own church ∴ church school

13. Subjects
Reading
Writing
Arithmetic
Science
English

14. South

15. Tutors Schools not practical
wealthy families hired private tutors to teach children (and whomever else owner chose)
taught in the home

16. subjects
Reading
Writing
Arithmetic
Music
French

17. Backcountry

18. Backcountry
parents taught
peddlers brought books / materials

19. Lower Classes

20. Learn the basics parents apprentices night schools - immigrant adults
Dame schools
(private combination day-care / elementary schools)

21. Women

22. family attitudes Women’s education depended on attitudes
in New England, Puritans believed women’s minds were inferior
in south, girls more likely to be taught along side brothers (same price)

23. College

24. Harvard William and Mary (1693) Yale (1701) Princeton (1746)
first college – Harvard (1636)
by 1775, 8 colleges
William and Mary (1693)
Yale (1701)
Princeton (1746)
Columbia (1754)
Penn (1757)
Brown (1764)
Dartmouth (1769)
William and Mary

25. College Education only wealthy can afford subjects taught:
boys start 15 or 16
lasted 5 years
all students taught same, no “majors”
subjects taught:
Rhetoric
Geometry
Logic
Astronomy
Science
History
Ethics
Hebrew
Greek
Latin

26. College Education
Helped develop American identity as sons of southern planters learned along side of sons of New England businessmen