Many, many thanks to all who responded re teachers' education in the late 1800's. It's really been interesting to me - from normal schools (there was a prominent one in Lebanon) to certificates to no requirements to practically nothing. I have much to follow up on. Thank you all. Kathleen Dewey Audra4RLS@aol.com wrote: >I would just like to mention that we need to remember how intense the >curriculum was in the past. Long division was done in ones head for example. Long >passages of classics were memorized where maybe now it seems to be skimmed >over. Readers did not have the variety of reading material as now and from what >I have surmised, most was more difficult than now. Writings by Ben Franklin >and others were far more difficult than what the average person reads today. >Aren't our newspapers and pamphlets written at an 8th grade level even now? >Maybe it is 6th? One or the other..just cannot remember now. I am a RNBSN and >have homeschooled for 7 years. I have come to the conclusion that children >who were able to go to school in the "olden" days received a great education in >comparison to what many children receive today. Mcguffey readers were not >easy. Education was very important to parents and children..it was a great >privilege to be able to read and write and parents enforced children to learn and >behave. Now sadly, children are so undisciplined that many..not all of >course are not concerned about learning...and those children in turn ruin it for >the rest of them by being disruptive. You cannot teach children who don't >want to learn. Just my opinion but a one room school house full of children who >wanted to learn would surpass an elaborate building full of children who >"have to go to school." Kudos to our past teachers regardless of their official >education. I bet they were some pretty intelligent teachers... > > >==== OHBUTLER Mailing List ==== >To SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE: Send a message to: >OHBUTLER-L-request@rootsweb.com or OHBUTLER-D-request@rootsweb.com >Put SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE (whichever you want to do) > > >