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In the. of the Philippines, American colonial education imposed English as the sole medium instruction. Native students were required to suppress their vernacular languages so. the classroom became the site for a kind of linguistic war ; or better yet , the war of translation.
Schools in Colonial New York. Colonial New York did not have a school system, but it did have individual schools. As communities were settled and assumed a degree of permanence, a variety of types of schools arose. These included church-and town-sponsored schools as well as schools conducted by independent schoolmasters.
THOMAS E. FINEGAN, COLONIAL SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES IN NEW YORK, Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association, Vol. 16 (1917), pp. 165-182.
- For Puritans, Reading Was A Religious Duty
- Inside A New England Schoolhouse
- Schools in The Middle Colonies and The South
- Colonial Teachers and Corporal Punishment
The Protestant Reformation was founded on the belief that the faithful could commune directly with God by reading the Bible. That’s why the English Puritanswho founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630s put a high priority on education. “Literacy took on a religious element,” says Edward Janak, an educational historian and professorat the Un...
Every Massachusetts town held meetings and voted on how many schools to build (children weren’t expected to walk more than a mile or two to school), how much public funds to use, and how much the students would pay to attend. “In the colonial era, all schools were ‘public’ in the sense that anyone who could afford it could go,” says Janek. In Massa...
Massachusetts Bay Colony was essentially a theocracy, and its fervent commitment to Bible literacy is what drove the government’s interest in compulsory schooling. Outside of New England, colonial governments let the burden of children’s education largely fall on families, churches and a few privately endowed schools for the poor. In 1671, the gove...
Qualified teachers were hard to find in the colonial era since there was no such thing as teacher education or professional training. “Teaching was very much a commercial endeavor,” says Janak. “Whoever hung up a shingle as a ‘schoolmaster’ got to do it.” Outside of the “dame schools,” colonial-era schoolmasters were almost exclusively men. Some we...
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1600-1754: Education: Overview Cultural Distinctions. Education was at the heart of European efforts to colonize America. Whether Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, or English, colonists from the Old World found success only as they adapted familiar ways of life and their own expectations to the peoples, geography, and natural resources they found in this strange New World across the Atlantic ...
dated system was not, in New York City at least, in the 1830s and 1840s, but around the turn of the century. The research described below suggests that the colonial mode of education survived in New York beyond the Revolution into the 1790s. Inexpensive, indepen-dent schools provided widespread rudimentary instruction for the city's children.
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Aug 3, 2019 · In the New England colonies, there were public town schools, moving schools (schools that literally moved from location to location), dame schools (schools set up by an older woman in the community as a means of support), and private venture schools (for-profit enterprises); the middle colonies featured denominational schools (Quaker , Lutheran, Anglican, Mennonite, Moravian, and Dutch Reform ...
