HIST 1207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Noah Webster, Northwest Ordinance, Practical Education
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Mid-atlantic colonies: the growth of commerce, heterogeneity, the academy of benjamin franklin, women were welcomed, essentialist, practical education. The southern colonies: largely agrarian, many unschooled workers, the children of the wealthy with hired tutors or educated abroad, the bene ts of ignorance. The growth of the nation: the westward movement the northwest ordinance, the change from salvation to nation building, the common school movement, noah webster. Tuesday, october 2, 2018: webster dictionary, created a common language, distinguished from british english, horace mann. Industrialization and high schools: kalamazoo case, 1875 seamless public support from k through graduate school, citizens have a right to free, public education from k-graduate school, greater education equals greater wealth, progressive education of john dewey. College: raking a few geniuses from the rubbish . Intellectual education as a means of removing poverty and securing abundance: though all mankind were well fed, well clothed, and well housed, they might.
