Education Reform StoryBoard
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- The Education Reform1830-1860
- If only we were wealthy and I could go to school.
- Our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers.
- We voted to pay taxes for public schools!
- We voted to pay teachers more!
- We voted to build training schools for teachers!
- In the south...
- In the nineteenth century, many children that were not wealthy did not have the opportunity to afford school because it was expensive. The teachers at the schools were often underpaid, too. Horace Mann, the 'father of American Public Schools' decided to take action.
- But what about us?
- 1837
- Horace Mann was the supervisor of education in Massachusetts. He explained why they needed more public schools, like in New York. As a child, he himself did not spend much time in school, but still valued his education.
- We are now allowed to go to college or training school for our education.
- Oberlin College
- After hearing Horace Mann, many people voted to pay taxes to open public schools, pay the teachers more, and open special schools where teachers could be trained. By the 1850s, there were lots of free public schools to go to.
- We want everyone to have the right to free public edcation.
- I wholeheartedly agree. We want everyone to be included.
- But the free public education was not open to everyone. Girls and African Americans were often not allowed to go to school. There were even laws against allowing them to attend.
- Oberlin College was the first college where women could go. Soon to follow would be more schools for women and African Americans.
- Prudence Crandall opened the first school where African Americans could go. Like Horace Mann, she supported the education reform. They played a large role in getting American education to what it is today.
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