Case Study: Early American Education
Frances Evans
Barton DVD Notes
Instructions: As you watch the Barton DVD, complete the Barton DVD Notes document. Provide at least 3 sentences for each section, except for the final section, which requires a complete, substantive paragraph. You will be required to submit the completed chart during Module/Week 4. “The philosophy of the _____school room______________ in one generation will be the philosophy of ___government_________________ of the next.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Early American Education
Harvard
Harvard Directives to students were to study is to know God and Jesus which is eternal life (John 17:3)
Harvard’s motto for “For Christ and the church “for the glory of Christ.
Produced declaration signers: William Hooper, William Williams, and John Adams.
Yale
Yale was also started by congregational for training ministers of the gospel.
Produced constitution signers: Baldwin, Livingston, and Ingegil.
Admonished students above all have an eye to the great end of all your studies which is obtained the clearest conception of divine things and to lead you to a saving knowledge of God in His son, Jesus Christ.
Princeton
Started by Presbyterians to train ministers of the Gospel.
Princeton founded some of the first schools for women and African Americans
Students attended worship in college halls morning and evening.
Early Educational Laws
1642 Old Deluder Satan Act
Thin slices of wood books were made out of.
Required public schools in each community.
It begins one chief project of that old deluder.
1787 Northwest Ordinance
The first federal law to address education.
Passed by founding fathers who drafted the first amendment
Northwest ordinance Article III link education/religion together.
Early Educational Pioneers
Benjamin Rush
Served in three presidential administration: Adams, Jefferson, Madison
University founder 5 colleges
“Father of Public schools under the constitution”
Supported that the Bible
Barton DVD Notes
Instructions: As you watch the Barton DVD, complete the Barton DVD Notes document. Provide at least 3 sentences for each section, except for the final section, which requires a complete, substantive paragraph. You will be required to submit the completed chart during Module/Week 4. “The philosophy of the _____school room______________ in one generation will be the philosophy of ___government_________________ of the next.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Early American Education
Harvard
Harvard Directives to students were to study is to know God and Jesus which is eternal life (John 17:3)
Harvard’s motto for “For Christ and the church “for the glory of Christ.
Produced declaration signers: William Hooper, William Williams, and John Adams.
Yale
Yale was also started by congregational for training ministers of the gospel.
Produced constitution signers: Baldwin, Livingston, and Ingegil.
Admonished students above all have an eye to the great end of all your studies which is obtained the clearest conception of divine things and to lead you to a saving knowledge of God in His son, Jesus Christ.
Princeton
Started by Presbyterians to train ministers of the Gospel.
Princeton founded some of the first schools for women and African Americans
Students attended worship in college halls morning and evening.
Early Educational Laws
1642 Old Deluder Satan Act
Thin slices of wood books were made out of.
Required public schools in each community.
It begins one chief project of that old deluder.
1787 Northwest Ordinance
The first federal law to address education.
Passed by founding fathers who drafted the first amendment
Northwest ordinance Article III link education/religion together.
Early Educational Pioneers
Benjamin Rush
Served in three presidential administration: Adams, Jefferson, Madison
University founder 5 colleges
“Father of Public schools under the constitution”
Supported that the Bible