Published by admin on Tue, 09/07/2021 - 12:54pm
I frequently give tours at a one-room school house in the Heritage Village in Lockport. I find that most people have no real idea of what education was like in the day. It has evolved in many ways, some for the better, and, in my opinion, some for the worse. Today we look at 19th century education.
The first thing that is different is that there were no “grades.” Grades were a new concept in the 19th century. Early on, most schools operated on the principle that when you learned what there was to learn, you graduated.