Education is Changing

Public schools became a growing fad as America had a want for better schools to educate their children with. They were truly created for middle class. Though women attended school, they were taught how to sow and be good mothers, rather than learn things such as arithmetic. Women were taught how to become proper wives, while men were taught tools of trade. Men of higher class were taught how to progress in careers such as doctors or lawyers, while the poor were taught things of industrial manner. African Americans education was not furthered as it was illegal to do so in the south, and they were not allowed into the schools in the north. This progress helped select people, mostly the middle class and up. Poorer people rarely attended school, as it was not required and their help was needed on the family farm. Because not all children were educated, and they were not generally educated the same, but for specific areas, this reform was somewhat lacking. It was not a fair system, but at least education was expanding.