19th Century American Education

Young people are the future of a country and how the countries educates their youth would mostly have a far-reaching impact of their own fates. This essay would explain how the rules for educating young children differed in Tokugawa Japan, 19th-century America, and Iran in the 1980s were deeply influenced by its culture. First of all, the recruitment range of students are slightly different in these countries. For basic education, it is interesting that the nearly widest recruitment range is Tokugawa Japan in the feudal age. The schools in Tokugawa Japan accepted students in every classes even though it had more severe hierarchy. However, the 19th-century America educating system banned a great number of young people to go to school—slave …show more content…
For example, Shogun governor was attracted by Confucianism’s social hierarchy and obedience idea so that the majority study content were teaching the youth the proper and polite way to obey the rules and senior people. According to the book Common Sense Teachings For Japanese Children, different periods of young people has different study plan but mainly about the moral rules—how respect their elders and distinct the social class at six, segregate girls and boys at seven and more etiquette since eight. As for America, as a new country, the education foundation was not that solid so that the main task for youth was to learn how to read and write. But for Iran in 1980s, even though they established modern education system but some points were missing because of the great influence from Islamism. For example, when Marjane Satrapi was drawing a model as an art student she was only allowed to draw a model covered by short head-scarf and wide trousers which the only part of the model’s body could be seen was her face. In this way, no matter how effective the new education system is the society would not one hundred percent accept it due to its limit of existing social …show more content…
Take Iran for an example, excessive emphasis on severe Islamic rules in schools would provoke rebellious for youth. Rock music means revolt as well as freedom and according to the book Persepolis, one of the favorite thing that students liked to do in or after the class was to share and enjoy the western music especially the rock music. It showed that the students in the schools were suppressed a lot under the serious education in the Islamic way stiffly. As a result, the contradiction between citizen and government escalated. As for Tokugawa Japan, even though its education system was improved than before, youth might have few freedom because the this education system emphasized hierarchical order so that the mobility of each class was small which hid a danger of class contradictions. During 19th-century America, there was not even any systematic instruction given on political morals and an enormous deficiency in a republic (Martineau 261). It was enough for earning a living but not enough for a