Educating, Chapter 2

Notes for Chapter 2 (see page images at the Internet Archive)

p. 14 "less than ten per cent. of the pupils will receive what is called a high-school education"

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"considerably later than he would in Europe"

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pp. 16-17 "beginning with the district school employing but one teacher (...) dream of converting it into a 'graded' school."

There were many books and articles around this time that urged the rural ungraded schools to make the most of their strengths, and not try to copy the graded city schools.  Much of the advice would also seem to apply to present-day homeschoolers who are teaching multiple ages at once.