Benjamin Rush's Impact On Education In America

The Americas started with a very poor education system, and the first person to look into changing this was Benjamin Rush. Rush worked mainly in Pennsylvania and his work was based on diffusing knowledge and establishing public school support which brought people free education. He also worked hard to create the first female academies called the Young Ladies Academy and advocated for the education of the blacks. Thomas Jefferson put in a lot of work into changing education in the Americas and even made a bill called Jefferson’s Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge which basically meant that schools had to be more general about their teachings and hit all the important subject. He also founded the University of Virginia. Noah Webster …show more content…
Sunday School and infant school are very good ideas because they help children who do not get the education they need during the week, but usually were not very successful. The growth of academies was shown by the education being very practical in many different ways, especially to minorities, like the Latins and Greeks, which is very important.
Academies for women were not a lot, but they continue to grow through the years. It began as many seminaries for women to gain more knowledge after elementary, and continued to grow into what it is today.
The common school movement created school to be taken over by the government with taxes, legislature, and politics. During this time, the US gained a lot of land and that meant more children needed to be trained to be in the workforce, and that is where demands of the working class increased, which is so important in today’s world, just like back then. The Society often looked down on these common schools because they were filled with the working class children. Suffrage increased so that even put more stress on common schools to educate their students enough to …show more content…
There was a very slow start to it all because there was not a huge push for it since so many people just worked at the farm. As the civil war came to and end, and industry and the economy grew, there was more and more of a push for high school. The tax and compulsory attendance laws began to help high schools grow for the state support. The committee of Ten was a group of people who created a standardized curriculum. The seven objectives of the high school curriculum were health, command of fundamental academic skills, worthy home membership, vocational preparation, citizenship, worthwhile use of leisure time, and ethical character, which is quite interesting that these are the seven most important things to go on a