What was education like in the 1920's?
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My grandmother (81 years old) always tells us about the manner classes, and learned how to set a table, cook etc.
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School only really took off as a solution for the masses about 100 years ago, until that point most of the rich either had private tutors or home-educated and poorer people received whatever education their parents gave them.
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Try this website for information on women in the 1930's:\n\nhttp://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade30.html
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Hi James,\nJust go to this site:\nhtpp://www.paddingtonschool.com.ar/sandra.lespade\nThanks for asking and Have a nice day!
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My high school was/is a Catholic stuffy rigid academic school. We hardly did well in any sporting activity but always did well in the braniac areas. For the most part my high school was divided into 3 main sections. Students that were upper middle class that had something to prove(mainly popularity and materialistically.) Second group was the brainiacs that snubbed the popular kids with their braniac elitism. The third group were ones that were just trying to survive and not fall between the cracks of the system. We all wore uniforms and mostly from the same heritage.
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Their main function at that time was to teach the American language, culture, and traditions so that children would grow up having the knowledge and abilities required to participate in a "democratic industrial society".  (At this time Native American children were sent off to Government boarding schools, at which they were forced to give up their language, dress, culture and traditions.)  It should be noted, however, that there was a great deal of debate at that time about exactly what to teach, whether all children should be taught the same things, and even whether certain groups of children (e.g. African-Americans, Native Americans) should be allowed to attend public schools with white children.  \n\nIn the early 1900s, public education moved away from a focus on academics and began to focus on providing vocational skills that would prepare children for work (keep in mind that it was "normal" then for kids to have only a few years of schooling before entering the workforce at a young age).  Thus English proficiency was no longer a must for succeeding in school.\n\nNote that the bilingual education debate is about as old as the American public school system.  The second link (below) will take you to a page detailing the history of the debate and each side's arguments.  \n\nSee the links provided for more information, or you can get the book "School: The Story of American Public Education", which is the companion volume to the PBS series of the same title.
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try this link http://www.greatschools.net/modperl/browse_school/in/1782/
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Clickl this link and read the article. It is much too long to copy it here. I hope this answers your question, or most of it. A very good  question, by the way!\n\nhttp://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/Internet
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Education in the USA has changed dramatically over the last few hundred years. The national system of formal education in the United States developed in the 19th century. Jefferson was the first American leader to suggest creating a public school system. Girls were not admitted in schools until many years after the establishment of schools, and even then, they were not taught the same subjects as boys. Since the 1950s, public policy toward education has addressed discrimination issues in education. Prominent women educators who have contributed significantly include Catharine Esther Beecher, Emma Willard, Mary Lyon, Jane Addams, Susan Anthony, Mrs. Carl Schurz, and Mary McLeod. They established higher-level institutions for women and offered subjects that earlier educators deemed unnecessary for women. The first coeducational college was Oberlin College (founded in 1833), the first enduring all-women's college was Vassar College (1861), and the first graduate school for women was at Bryn Mawr College (1880). \n\nhttp://www.servintfree.net/~aidmn-ejournal/publications/2001-11/PublicEducationInTheUnitedStates.html
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There's like a buttload of differences. I'm 45. I walked or rode my bike to school. Lots of kids did, even in high school. Now the bike racks are gone. We had no internet, not even desktop computers. No Ipods. Not even Walkmans. No cell phones. No CDs. We had records, cassettes, and 8 track tapes. There were no school shootings, drugs were extremely limited, the big deal in high school was smoking. If you could get away with smoking, you were a big deal. Limos at the prom were rare. Most of us drove ourselves. It was much much smoggier when I was a kid. The air in Southern California was brown and smelled bad. Gas was cheap compared to now, but wages were lower, so it didn't much matter. When I was a kid, we had Vietnam on TV every night until the early 70s. Now we have Iraq on TV every night.
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Other than having "atomic bomb" drills when I was in school---like sitting in the hallway with my head between my knees and my hands over my head was really going to stop an atomic blast or protect me from radioactive fallout LOL-it was absolutely wonderful for me. We had the birth of "Rock-N-Roll", employment and secure jobs for all, and our depression-era raised parents made sure that we had things they had only dreamed about. A new car was $1000.00 and $10,000 bought a NEW 3 bedroom brick home in a nice neighborhood.\n\nBUT....I was a white child in the South...My Black friends of today experienced a totally different reality. Unemployment or employment at or below minimum wage.  Black women were lucky to find housekeeping jobs within a 2 hr bus ride for $5.00 per day.  They could not shop in white owned stores, eat in white owned restaurants, drink from the same water fountains as whites, go to school with whites, swim in city owned swimming pools with whites, go to most theaters (although some of the more "liberal" theaters would allow them to sit in the balcony), vote or run for public office, and stood the chance of being hung if they were so "uppity" as to try any of these things.\n\nHow was life in the 50's.....as with all things it was, and is, a matter of perspective.
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There are two answer for this:\nOne.  In our country we sadly are still so segregated by economics that we only expect the best from one group.  We expect that the lower classes to do the worst and our country has set up institutions that generate the same results year after year.  If you expect someone to do poorly that's what you will get.  In psychology it is called self-fulfilling prophecy.\nTwo.  Sadly, our education system is the same model for the last century and although it worked in the 1920s it can no longer stay at par with the education of other industrial countries.  This country is still receiving and using old frameworks of education to dictate how we educate our children.
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how do you compare the lifestyle of today to your time period? \nwhat is your view on todays goverment compared to your time period?\ngas and economy?\nrace?\nwar?\nemployment?\nworld affairs?
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findout_22 - 1974? What kind of answer is that? \n\nI suspect it is sometime in the ealr 1900s...probably 1912.
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I think one of the biggest shocks to me was the amount of self-discipline I had to have in college. Our professors didn't give us homework every night, give us quizzes and review sheets. It was basically, "Here's the book, read, we'll have 3 tests." I was surprised that I was responsable for so much of the learning myself. The professors usually didn't teach us anything that appeared on the tests. What else? There was a lot more reading than in high school too. Homework usually involved reading chapters in a textbook instead of worksheets or problems.
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Not much happened during the war years. There were several changes during the 1950s. I can only tell you what I know from my own experience. I left school aged 15 in 1953.  I was in a selective Central School and to enter I had to pass an 11 plus examination.  Some of my friends did a further examination to go on to either a Technical School to specialise in technical subjects or a Grammar School to specialise in languages and literature. Many of my friends stayed on at school to do the General Certificate of Education that was then being introduced into schools in preparation for a wider opportunity for children to enter higher education.  I expect that you should be able to find more information on the Internet especially on the Department of Education and Science web site.  I do not know the address but if you type in the words in your search engine it should come up with options.
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Psychology was pretty easy for me in high school. I remember learning about child development (Piaget) and behavioral conditioning (Pavlov). I also remember learning about sensory adaptation. Now I also ended up getting a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Utah later on.