Chapter 5

Well i found this to be a pretty interesting chapter, i felt like a lot i already knew like about the laws that were passed. But its amazing how basic school was at first for lower class students they studied curriculum of reading, writing, and computation and receiving religious instruction. If you were upper class you studied perennialist subjects like latin and greek classics. I found it interesting that teachers had low respect in communities and that men were mainly teachers and not women. Because now a days there are probably more women teachers than men. Im glad i did not attend school in the colonial days because they treated kids like adults just in smaller bodies. Their jobs were to make the kids behave like adults as soon as possible. I also found it interesting that there were multiple types of schools (dame, reading and writing and latin grammer schools) and that you learned different things depending on what school you went to. Im very happy that the Massachusets Act of 1642 was passed which made education a civil responsibility of the states. I believe that every child no matter age color religious belief should be able to receive an education. I think it was completely bogas that teaching of reading and writing to slaves was a crime at one point. Im glad we have so many people to look back on and thank for all they did for our schools and our children.