Chapter2, Section 3: Schooling in the Jeffersonian Era

Potential Trends

1. Trends regarding early education:

a. local control

b. free education

c. content oriented towards the basics

2. Trends regarding educational purposes:

a. education should be a "weeding out" instrument

b. education should cater to particular student inclinations/interests

c. education should be the source of community and professional leadership

3. Trends regarding theories about learning:

a. mind could and should be trained (faculty psychology

b. a reasoned person will strive to continually educate himself (life-long learning)

c. white males are best suited for what education had to offer

 

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