Start of Educatoin Journal

The article American History: Education seemed to be a detailed timeline in paragraph form. The article contains a positive perspective on our countries educational history. It explains that before long the American colonists had created schools and this ear was also creditable for the system of public schools. It is fascinating to know that the education program. It explained the details of what education has started from to what it has become today. Home schooling was the first form of education. It was up to the family’s parents to teach their children what they felt was important; there was an optimistic outlook that the parents would be good teachers. Because parents were the only source of education the next generation was restricted to the career their parent worked in and massed on. These limiting qualities are what made it necessary for public education. The public education was mostly used for the poor and the orphaned children that would have no other possibilities of gaining a future. This was one step our country took for the common good of the people. The public schools were the best gift our ancestors could have possibly given us, not only were they showing a charitable gift for the next generation of their people but they were also opening up our country to endless possibilities. The orphan that would have never learned how to read could now grow up and change the world.
The article then passed through time explaining when the first text book appeared, secondary schools, middle schools, and universities as well. All of things appeared rapidly throughout one hundred years. The speed that these different pieces of our current education system were put together is amazing. These were no small task, to start not only a new school but a completely new type of school, where different ages and material were being taught is something unimaginably hard.
The progress in education wasn’t always open to all though. Outside of public education different private schools were being created for people of different religions. It is stimulating that America has not changed the divided system of having both public and then private for all different purposes. The article introduces the separations of the schools at the time in a slightly negative light. It shares that while the private schools were used for the upper class “free public education centered on the poor.” The separation was in clear existence during this schooling period. Comparing what they had done then to what is done now; I didn’t see much of an improvement. Although Obama had addressed in his speech even yesterday that education for everyone should be one of the countries number one priorities it has yet to become equal. Schools are separated by the quality of the towns, while some public schools are having almost all students go on to college others have a slight few that progress. It is weird to think that one of the same problems that they seemed to have then is still a problem to this day.
"education." American History. ABC-CLIO, 2010. Web. 28 Jan. 2010. http://www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com/.