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The American Common School Period
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Role of Teachers
- Most children were educated at home or at small country schoolhouses, where one teacher taught all grades
- Teachers at schoolhouses were paid by low salaries -75 cents a day!- by the community
- Horace Mann -mentioned previously- established normal schools for teacher training which then led to teachers who were better suited to teach
- As a result, there was more expectations of teacher knowledge and teaching abilities
Common Schools
~Horrace Mann proposed a system of free universal schooling
~Each district would provide a school for all children regardless of religion or social class
Horace Mann
'Father of Education'
~These new schools would set in place a common political & social philosophy of republican principals
School Curriculum
- Born in Franklin, Massachusetts, in 1796
- His personal schooling consisted of brief lessons eight to ten weeks a year
- Continued to teach basics with Christian and Republican principles
- Students learned Greek, Roman, English History, and, American History
- Mann personally felt common schooling would be a 'great equalizer'
- Mann presided over the establishment of the first public school in the United States in Lexington in 1839
Mary Lyon
- In 1814, townspeople offered Mary Lyon her first teaching job at a summer school in Shelburne Falls
- At the time, teachers needed no formal training- she was seventeen
- She eventually became an authority on the education of women.
- Mary Lyon proved that women were as intellectually capable as men
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