6.+Wagoner+American+Education


 * **Wagoner** || **Quotes** || **Reflections/Comments** ||
 * || "In contrast to the coeducational situation in the common schools, separate institutions for the education of older girls developed almost simultaneously with the common schools. In the seminaries headed by famous reformers such as Catherine Beecher, Mary Lyon, and Emma Willard, the curriculum ostensibly concentrated on equipping women for motherhood and domestic management responsibilities." p. 113. || The contrast spoken of here refers to the common school movement lead by Horace Mann in Massachusetts from 1837-1848. Mann and others of the time felt that the nurturing environment of the family was recreated in the common school, according to Jennings and Wagoner, where boys and girls were invited and allowed to exist in a coeducational environment. the other books in looked at the secondary and higher education or schooling of older girls and adult women. worth noting is the general agreement between all the historians on the importance of gender and class. ||
 * || "The net result was an equal education for women in the common schools, an expansion of educational opportunity for them in the women's seminaries, and expansion of employment opportunities in the teaching force as a result of the normal schools." p. 113. || Again in the same pattern/conclusion of the other books/authors looked at during the course of this paper we see the expansion of women's access to education leading them into the more public sphere of the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth century. Education and the access to it even at an early age lead the society to being embracing the changes brought about because of that very access. ||
 * || "The tendency of southerners to rely primarily on voluntary parental, community, and church initiatives in educating their children persisted throughout most of the region down to the Civil War." p.117. || this statement reminds me of other voices relating this southern independence in pursuing education through the strong community ties to the opinions voiced by Alex de Tocqueville. -Look at and relate back to one of the other books about that very relation to an independence and the woman who preceded Tocqueville in relating the two commonalities of American life and community to the educational values held by society. Hale-name was and look in Solomon/Kelley. ||
 * || "Academies tended to offer a wider range of courses, especially in scientific subjects and business skills, than did either the more purely classical schools or private tutors sometimes favored by preministerial students and some among the economic elite." p. 118. || subjects offered ||
 * || "Although most academies were limited to male students, some coeducational institutions existed form the time of the Revolution." p.118., ||  ||
 * || "Although most academies were limited to male students, some coeducational institutions existed form the time of the Revolution." p.118., ||  ||