How were schools different in colonial times than they are today?

Question

I really need answers this is a homework assignment but other than that I have no additional info!!

Answer 1

No computers.

Answer 2

In colonial times, schooling was very haphazard, was not compulsory and many children attended only spasmodically. For example, if your father was a farmer and he needed help in the fields in the spring, you didn't go to school during the spring planting season. Same in the fall harvest season. So many children in rural areas only attended school for a few months of the year.
The schools were often small, with several classes in the same room, and teachers were not certified as they are today. Anyone who could read, write,and cipher to the rule of t0 (do arithmetic up to the ten times table) was adjudged educated enough to teach school.
College was a different matter, but college was pretty well the exclusive bailiwick of the upper classes as the lower classes couldn't afford to keep their children in school long enough to qualify for college, nor could they afford the fees.

Answer 3

In colonial times schools were very different. The seating arrangements were different. The punishments were different. The lessons were different. The building was different. Almost everything was different. Things were very interesting. You want to find out about it? It's all right here. We brought the past to the present. Just read this, and find out more about school during colonial times.

Answer 4

a. Met in one room all grades.
b. One teacher did the main work and the older school kids helped the younger so that there was lots of teaching going on at once
c. the kids WANTED to learn
d. They still used the religious books, mainly The Bible, to base their information and value systems on
e. In times of harvest the kids were let off or out early so that the crops could be gathered in
f. Latin was taught
g. Respect was obligatory and there was a cane or whipping post for rebellious kids.

Answer 5

Today all kids have the chance at public education at a neutral location. In colonial times the rich were tutored at their homes and the rest were lucky to get any formal education at all.

Answer 6

Colonial schools were different because they sat on wooden chairs.The students were beaten..boys ,but the girls mostly were put in the dunce corner or somethin'.The teachers didn't have as many resources as we do nowadays..they only had prior knowledge and some books from the school.GOOD LUCK!!!!!

Answer 7

primer schools preped folkes with the basics then the affluent went to a Grammer school to learn latin and greek and advanced maths and trig so they then could be apprenticed to a doctor or a lawyer to read law or to practice medicine as an aid to the pro and as a clerk or they went to sea as a midshipman or to the military academy to learn engineering or were sent to england to finish their studies at a college we had colleges here too some of the oldest were started by religious settlers like william and mary or others look up the mathers, cotton and his brother

Answer 8

Most schools back then had all grades in one schoolhouse. And probably only one teacher for all grades. Therefore all subjects were taught by the same teacher. People obviously didn't drive to school.

Answer 9

they had all of the children in one room, different ages learning every thing, it was not stricter the way it is now
it was also not mandatory because some of the children worked