Reflection 18

Colonial New England education and U.S. education are like two opposite ends of the pole. Education in colonial times was much more centered on the religious aspects of life. In present day U. S. education religion is not tolerated in the classroom. It even goes as far as some families being against their child pledging allegiance to the United States flag. The teaching profession was mostly dominated by males. The majority of teachers were male. Women who ventured into the teaching profession were thought to be masculine. Teaching today is a unisex profession even though it is mostly done by women. Unlike present U.S. education, during colonial times religion played a very big part of education. Children were taught to read the bible at a very young age and it was often used as a textbook. In present day U.S. schools, religion is not tolerated as a subject in school due to much diversity in religions and for the fact that each student doesn’t have the same beliefs. There are too many ways to offend someone and religion is simply one of those aspects that aren’t shared by the whole population at any given time. Therefore for the sake of sanity and for the sake of not having an argument, religion is entirely left out of the education system. Discrimination was also a difference between colonial New England education and modern U.S. education. During those times, race wasn’t an issue as discrimination is concerned because African Americans were schooled and if there were schools who secretly taught black children, they were segregated and not taught the same information that the white kids were taught. The biggest site of discrimination would be based on a person’s wealth and their status in the community. In modern day school system, there isn’t any discrimination as far as education because each child has the right to be educated. No matter if the child’s family is rich or poor. In modern day society, schooling can take up a great part in an individual’s life. There are primary schools and secondary schools, and schools to further one’s education to become better at what they initially wanted to do. Everyone has the ability to go to a college or university now-a-days. In colonial times, not everyone went to college and there was such a large gap between the school systems. Unlike now where you go from one school right into another upon completion you graduate and have the bare minimum. In colonial times, what they considered bare minimum, which was attending primary school, stood for a lot.


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