Reflection # 19

When we look back to old colonial times, to our public schools now there's a major difference. It's amazing to see how our schools and education have been improved since the Dame schools of old times. Our education has only progressed throughout centuries. The first schools created during Colonial times were known as Dame schools. Boys and girls were taught by women in their own homes. You can think of it as a very private lesson given by women. Boys were usually taught writing, reading, and religion; where girls were being educated on house chores.
Students usually used slate pencils and wrote on clay tablets. Whenever they would make a mistake all they had to do was erase and reuse it whenever their instructor told them too. Smaller children usually used something called a horn book. It was basically a wooden board with a simple handle; inside consisting of prayers and the alphabet.
Now in days we use paper like we consume oxygen. We're constantly throwing away good paper that could be used again, or make thousands of unnecessary copies that remain in files for years, that in the end their going to end up in the trash.
Furthermore, in the colonial times students were required to learn about religion at least one day a week. High schools these days do not have this requirement. Although I think its not such a bad idea, only private religious schools carry this subject.
So as you can see time does take a toll on everything, it takes a toll for change. For the most part time has taken a better toll on education. It gives us more hope that many of us can succeed in what we want we dream to become.