Educational advances
* Tax supported primary schools were scarce in the early years of the Republic.* Aristocrats felt that it was not there concern to educate the lower class.1. They felt that their children would grow up with "brats."2. They were afraid that poor children would be armed with votes.* Tax-supported public education triumphed between 1825-1850.1. Laborers demanded instruction for their children.2. Rising manhood suffrage aided the tax-supported public education.* The average schoolhouse was one room, one stove, one teacher, and eight grades
The did not provide a good education2. * Oberlin College in Ohio in 1837 opened their doors to men, women, and blacks. * Adults went to private subscription libraries to get more education. Moral Philosophy* The first state supported university began in the south, North Carolina in 1795. Moral Philosophy* Magazines flourished in the pre civil war years. * Most school teachers were men who were ill tempered and ill paid. * Mary Lyon-Established an outstanding women's school, Mount Holyoke Seminary. * Emma Willard-Established the Troy Female seminary. * Traveling lectures helped to promoted learning, Lycum Lecturing Association. "* The Second Great Awakening led to the development of small Liberal Arts colleges in the South and West. * The schools stayed open only a few months of the year. * Jefferson designed the University of Virginia. * In 1860, the nation counted 100 high schools, and 1,000,000 illiterate white adults.
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