Reflection # 18

I do agree that from the very beginning America's view about school was always to improve our society today. When the English came from across the world to populate America their schools were organized by their communties. The communities made sure that the children were educated in a certain way. Establishing an Educated society was important because it was necessary that everyone knew how to write and read. Although there were times when the female students were not valued enough to have equal education with a boy, they were still educated to be good house keepers and to take care of their families. In colonial times the schools had some form of religious education. I believe that religion was important to their society because it allowed the students to acknowledge their being a higher power. It also helped them to stay pure by doing the right thing with thought that along with sin comes death.
Also in Colonial America times teachers were not as educated as they should have been. In fact anyone could could be a school educator. At some point indentured servants were forced to be teachers until a certain amount of years. the fact that someone who knows nothing about teaching would teach what they know not about is crazy. As time went by schools were being established to better prepare the teachers for subject matters. When the profession of teachers did expand throughout the nation, there were high demands for better qualified teachers. Therefore this demand required better education for better teachers. another example of how America's view of schools is always to better society is because of all the different techniques we have and workshops teachers go to. There are a variety of programs on computers just to better education such as ticket to read and success reader for elementary students. In college the majority of books purchased for classes come with a CD-ROM package that includes different subjuect lessons, and practices.