Education In The 1800s

Education serves as the cornerstone of civilization, as the majority of the populus wants to see the next generation of people educated to continue running human society. How society educated the next generation has changed throughout the century but in only the last three and a half centuries public education for the masses existed. Educators everywhere would argue that the system is efficient and is here to stay. However, to argue this is short sighted, education at the start of the 1800s was much different than today and education has dramatically changed overtime. To add to that, the technological age of the 21st century has changed the way students are educated. Easier access to information for research and papers, ability to communicate with
This is coupled with automation, which as an economic force that is slowly but surely replacing the jobs of millions of blue and white collared workers around the world with artificial intelligence. Education as a whole will undergo radical changes society must prepare for. The history of public education stems back to the 1820s where activists campaigned for what they called the common school. Education before that had been comprised of either private education payed via tuition, or apprenticeships. “The laws and customs of Europe, therefore, in order to qualify any person for exercising the one species of labour, impose the necessity of an apprenticeship, though with different degrees of rigour in different places. They leave the other free and open to every body. During the continuance of the apprenticeship, the whole labour of the apprentice belongs to his master. In the meantime he must, in many cases, be maintained by his parents or relations, and, in almost all cases, must be clothed by them. Some money, too, is commonly given to the master for teaching him his trade.” Smith, A., & Skinner, A. S. (1999). The wealth of nations. London: Penguin. chapter 10 part 1. Apprenticeship demonstrated the link between