Educational_Pratices_in_Colonial_America

Educational Pratices in Colonial America America prides itself on the fact that every child in this nation is entitled to a free and well rounded education. This was not always the case. The establishment of schooling systems within America, was an evolutionary process. Each region in the country began with a system which suited them, whether that meant that children only learned what was necessary for survival or just basic reading and writing. Eventually, America began to realize that its children needed to educated. It then became a public issue, and the emergence of institutionalized learning centers originated. This still did not ensure that all children were educated, especially when it came to girls. Up until the aftermath of the American Revolution, education for girls was not a priority and not deemed very important. Only with the new ideology that emerged from that war, did the amendment of women’s educational rights become considerable. Very few colonial children received formal educations in the early years. “As members of the family workforce, children were vocational apprentices of the parent of their own sex: fathers trained sons in agriculture or in the family trade, while mothers taught housewifery to their education, women, schools, children, new, colonies, writing, reading, men, girls, england, middle, educational, women’s, time, system, south, social, seen, schooling, private, one, literate, ideology, family, even, educated, each, country, colonial, class, been, american, world, while, war, very, teaching, taught, sons, society, skills, school, public, played, parents, need, might, male