The Origins Of Public Schools

[subllibrm]

Religion, morality and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.

Northwest Ordinance - 1787

Interesting subject to study.

 

[Tarheel Baptist]

Religion, morality and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.

Northwest Ordinance - 1787

Interesting subject to study.

Public education began with pure motivation…then comes John Dewy to put them on the road to where they are now.

 

[Tarheel Baptist]

Religion, morality and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.

Northwest Ordinance - 1787

Interesting subject to study.

Also interesting to see why Harvard and Yale were originally started.

 

[DrHuk&Duck]

Religion, morality and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.

Northwest Ordinance - 1787

Interesting subject to study.

The first public school in America goes back to 1635 in Boston. It’s still a functioning school today. https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/first-public-school-america/

 

[DrHuk&Duck]

Interesting read from Time about the current state of public schools—on topic with other threads on here by Tarheel: https://time.com/7001264/project-2025-public-school-closure/

 

[Ekklesian]

Public education began with pure motivation…then comes John Dewy to put them on the road to where they are now.

Don't forget Jimmy Carter and the Department of Education.

 

[Ransom]

Religion, morality and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.

Northwest Ordinance - 1787

Interesting subject to study.

The Canadian public school sysyem was designed along the same lines by Egerton Ryerson, a Methodist minister. He believed education was the key to good government and civil liberties.

He also laid the basis for the Indian residential schools, intended to educate the natives and integrate them into Canadian society. Of course, the residential schools were a source of racism and abuse. Forced assimation ("kill the Indian, save the man")--the eradication of Ojibwe culture--was the stated goal, though not by Ryerson himself, who wasn't involved with their operation.

That, at the time, was a very progressive ideal--integration and assimation as the antidote to racial prejudice. Today, institutions that bore Ryerson's name no longer do, because yesterday's progressivism is today's racism.