How Did Education Influence The Development Of Colonial Education

Education has always been a very big part of any culture or society. Most importantly however colonial education is where all the principles for education where first established. Colonial education has been the foundation for all education. Education has evolved a lot from what we know today. Children and young adults in the colonial period didn’t place a lot of importance in education. They placed more importance on mundane house chores than education.

There are many differences in colonial education for example the dame schools.

The dame schools were taught by simple women who for simple money taught boys a few letters and numbers. Most of the dame taught girls how to sow and do other mundane house chores. On the other hand, boys were taught

There were not a lot of people that where literate or could afford the fees that the schools charged. This was also caused because there had been no schools in 9 years’ in the colony that’s why these colleges had such low attendance rates. At higher education establishments some of the old alumni liken William Brewster and Myles Standish. They left volumes for libraries. That was the most important things they were influence greatly on puritan influences.

Other influences left by puritans that affected colonial aspects in Massachusetts were their English practices that they conveyed through books. Since these educational institutes were founded and established on English colonial towns they were publicly funded. like todays school most are established in small rural towns that’s why they receive funding from their government. They have received public funding from both the government and the taxes the government collects from the

In his life time Mr. Mann accomplished great things in the educational field and other non-educational fields. Mr. Mann had a harsh upbringing filled with poverty, hardship. He was taught by many poor competitive teachers. Horace Mann managed to educate himself with books from the franklin town library. He was also being tutored in Latin and Greek by Samuel Barrett who was a Unitarian minister

Mr. Mann was very involved in politics, education and social reform. He became the first advocate for public education. At this time in history education was not the main focus of the era like everything in this world, it was politics that triumphed over education. Among some of the beliefs that Mann held were that, all education be free for every student to pursue higher education. Since Mann was a big fanatic of the public education and seeing the deterioration of education he decided, he would accept a first secretary ship on the board of