What then is the solution Karen, you have aptly defined the problem written a book about it, but what is the solution?
Father funded education?
Parochial education?
No education?
Charter schools?
Until Horace Mann, the apostle of public education, made an impact in the second half of the 19th Century, all education was private If the father had the means he could tutor his sons, if he was wealthy enough he could hire a tutor.
My 9th great grandfather and name sake,was on of the original settlers in Jamestown, and his family became wealthy planters, sheriffs and members of the House of Burgess, but they bred themselves into obscurity, and eventually a younger son of 5th generation was not tutored, is father had died after he tutored his eldest son, and there was not enough of an estate to pass on to or educate his other sons, one of them died in the revolution, left a will but signed by an X.
The sons of this man and their grandsons and great grandsons, were not tutored, could not read nor write, and thus could not engage in business and were at the mercy of those that could.
Until in the latter part of the 19th Century, one state, probably others, this one Arkansas listened to Horace and adopted publicly funded education. A man was born in 1850, he had never been taught to read and write, however his son born in 1883 was, and he graduated 8th grade, he had a son that graduated HS, and he had a son that earned a Masters degree and he had a son who earned a PhD, who has a daughter that is also a scientist with a PhD.
So what is the cure or alternative for public education Karen?
What then is the solution Karen, you have aptly defined the problem written a book about it, but what is the solution?
Father funded education?
Parochial education?
No education?
Charter schools?
Until Horace Mann, the apostle of public education, made an impact in the second half of the 19th Century, all education was private If the father had the means he could tutor his sons, if he was wealthy enough he could hire a tutor.
My 9th great grandfather and name sake,was on of the original settlers in Jamestown, and his family became wealthy planters, sheriffs and members of the House of Burgess, but they bred themselves into obscurity, and eventually a younger son of 5th generation was not tutored, is father had died after he tutored his eldest son, and there was not enough of an estate to pass on to or educate his other sons, one of them died in the revolution, left a will but signed by an X.
The sons of this man and their grandsons and great grandsons, were not tutored, could not read nor write, and thus could not engage in business and were at the mercy of those that could.
Until in the latter part of the 19th Century, one state, probably others, this one Arkansas listened to Horace and adopted publicly funded education. A man was born in 1850, he had never been taught to read and write, however his son born in 1883 was, and he graduated 8th grade, he had a son that graduated HS, and he had a son that earned a Masters degree and he had a son who earned a PhD, who has a daughter that is also a scientist with a PhD.
So what is the cure or alternative for public education Karen?