Education

Education has really changed over the past centuries. Previously, girls were not allowed to go to schools and now girls are entitled and have the rights to get an education.When a child of the lower and middle classes finished his elementary school, he or she could go on to a vocational or technical school. The upper-class child often did not attend the elementary school but was instead tutored until he was about 9 years old and could enter a secondary school. Instead of two separate and distinct educational systems for separate and distinct classes, the United States provided one system open to everyone.

As in mid-19th-century Europe, women were slowly gaining educational ground in the United States. In the mid-19th the secondary-school had been slowly expanding since the founding of the academies in the mid-18th century virtually exploded in the mid-19th.A new society, People still believed that the mind could be "trained," but they now thought that science could do a better job than could the classics.

The mid-19th-century knowledge explosion also modestly affected some of the common schools, which expanded to include such courses as science and nature study.In the early days the common schools, like those in Europe, consisted of one room where one teacher taught pupils in age from 6 to about 13--and sometimes older. To find out more about learning and the learning process, American normal schools looked to Europe. However we need to keep in mind that we are especially lucky to have the chance to be able to have an education like