Common School

 It was very interesting to see how Common Schools were first developed. I think as students we tend to underestimate how much education is worth. The importance of what family you came from is very important to see how educated you are. The wealthy were easily accessible to education while the poor couldn't gain an education. There was this balance that is seen to be struggled throughout the book where they tried to make the schools be equal to everyone. They wanted these schools accessible to not only the wealthy, but the poor as well.

However, the system of creating schools were still unbalanced in the beginning. There was still conflicts of sexism and racism with schools. Girls were not given the same opportunity to gain education like the boys did. Also, segregation was still affecting the school system where African Americans were not allowed to be in the schools. Tradition was something that is talked over many times within the book. Tradition is something that people follow by due to it's because its the norm. It is very hard to break tradition also when including religion into the schools as well. Religion was argued so much throughout the book where the people at that time felt like their religion wasn't represented.

I did not gain all these different topics just from reading the book, but from my classmates. It was interesting to see the different perspectives. Many of us were passionate about certain topics that I even overlooked myself. However, it was interesting to see that everyone used the quote, "General education will enable every man to judge for himself what will secure or endanger his freedom". I think everyone agreed that it is important to have an education to be able to understand your own rights and freedom.




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