http://www.imedia-emagine.com/whisk/be-a-con-house-education-ii/ Starting Fresh Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:59:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.imedia-emagine.com/whisk/be-a-con-house-education-ii/#comment-60 e. Perkins Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:04:59 +0000 http://www.imedia-emagine.com/whisk/2006/09/20/be-a-con-house-education-ii/#comment-60 Re fifth graders reading Shakespeare, etc. In one 1885 small town Dakota Territory school I'm familiar with all the 110+ students, primary through high school, were divided into five classes or grades. The fifth was the highest grade. Those fifth grade students were the equivalent of today's high school students. They're the ones who read Shakespeare and the others from Appleton's fifth reader. One of the fifth grade students, who had taught school for more than a year herself, matriculated at the University of North Dakota in 1888. Like most UND freshman then she had to take a (high school) preparatory course before she could enroll in freshman university classes. The average public school student isn't well educated now, but they weren't well educated then, either. Re fifth graders reading Shakespeare, etc. In one 1885 small town Dakota Territory school I’m familiar with all the 110+ students, primary through high school, were divided into five classes or grades. The fifth was the highest grade. Those fifth grade students were the equivalent of today’s high school students. They’re the ones who read Shakespeare and the others from Appleton’s fifth reader. One of the fifth grade students, who had taught school for more than a year herself, matriculated at the University of North Dakota in 1888. Like most UND freshman then she had to take a (high school) preparatory course before she could enroll in freshman university classes. The average public school student isn’t well educated now, but they weren’t well educated then, either.

]]> http://www.imedia-emagine.com/whisk/be-a-con-house-education-ii/#comment-9 Toma Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:24:39 +0000 http://www.imedia-emagine.com/whisk/2006/09/20/be-a-con-house-education-ii/#comment-9 Hi all! I just started my first semester. I was wondering if anyone could provide me with some information on "the role and functions of education". Does anyone really believe education is the only priority? People say that education is vital and is a priority. Like a list of the points or something like that, and email it to me please: toma@cell-phone-accessory.org. I would really appreciate the help! I need it before Thursday! Thanks! Toma Hi all! I just started my first semester. I was wondering if anyone could provide me with some information on “the role and functions of education”. Does anyone really believe education is the only priority? People say that education is vital and is a priority. Like a list of the points or something like that, and email it to me please: toma@cell-phone-accessory.org. I would really appreciate the help! I need it before Thursday!
Thanks! Toma

]]> http://www.imedia-emagine.com/whisk/be-a-con-house-education-ii/#comment-5 WHISK » Blog Archive » Education in the US Sat, 28 Oct 2006 23:50:10 +0000 http://www.imedia-emagine.com/whisk/2006/09/20/be-a-con-house-education-ii/#comment-5 [...] With reference to my previous posts on Beaconhouse, I think they may be following a system of education that this author has analyzed in her blog. Read on. It may scare you a little: “In 1882, fifth graders read these authors in their Appleton School Reader: William Shakespeare, Henry Thoreau, George Washington, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Bunyan, Daniel Webster, Samuel Johnson, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and others like them. In 1995, a student teacher of fifth graders in Minneapolis wrote to the local newspaper, “I was told children are not to be expected to spell the following words correctly: back, big, call, came, can, day, did, dog, down, get, good, have, he, home, if, in, is, it, like, little, man, morning, mother, my, night, off, out, over, people, play, ran, said, saw, she, some, soon, their, them, there, time, two, too, up, us, very, water, we, went, where, when, will, would, etc. Is this nuts?” “ [...] [...] With reference to my previous posts on Beaconhouse, I think they may be following a system of education that this author has analyzed in her blog. Read on. It may scare you a little: “In 1882, fifth graders read these authors in their Appleton School Reader: William Shakespeare, Henry Thoreau, George Washington, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Bunyan, Daniel Webster, Samuel Johnson, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and others like them. In 1995, a student teacher of fifth graders in Minneapolis wrote to the local newspaper, “I was told children are not to be expected to spell the following words correctly: back, big, call, came, can, day, did, dog, down, get, good, have, he, home, if, in, is, it, like, little, man, morning, mother, my, night, off, out, over, people, play, ran, said, saw, she, some, soon, their, them, there, time, two, too, up, us, very, water, we, went, where, when, will, would, etc. Is this nuts?” “ [...]

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