Worldview Analysis
Historically, Colonial American children were educated at home by their parents, clergy, or in Dame schools taught by other community members. Education centered upon a Biblical Worldview by which the primary tenets were first and foremost, to know God through reading His Word, followed by writing and arithmetic. The shift in America education occurred during the social and intellectual movement of the 18th Century Enlightenment Period. Initiated by the Scientific Revolution, it further expounded on the philosophy of a natural and humanistic approach to seeking answers to our how man and the world came to exist, thus quelling the absolutism of God. Rooted in classical Greek Aristotelian philosophy, the new world thinking …show more content…
Elements of socialism evident in the American educational system today, began in 1839. Intellectual elitist, Horace Mann, through his publication, the Common School Journal propagated his ideas regarding the need for a government-run public education system. Mann, steadfast in his view that “the state is the father of children” (Horace Mann), believed the Prussian model of education, based on the premise that only the crown controlled the curriculum content and eliminated any subject matter that fostered critical thinking or challenged authority. This falls in line with Karl Marx and Friedrick Engels statements in The Communist Manifesto, “The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother 's care, shall be in state institutions at state expense” (1848, p49). Mann believed that Christianity was a hindrance to the social obedience indoctrination and elimination of Biblical presupposition. Mann’s enforcement to institute a secular educational system has roots in the philosophy of Johann Fitche who claimed that “from the very beginning the pupil should be continuously and completely under the influence of this education, and should be separated altogether from the community, and kept from all contact with it” (Hicks, page 113). In order for Mann to further his socialist,
Historically, Colonial American children were educated at home by their parents, clergy, or in Dame schools taught by other community members. Education centered upon a Biblical Worldview by which the primary tenets were first and foremost, to know God through reading His Word, followed by writing and arithmetic. The shift in America education occurred during the social and intellectual movement of the 18th Century Enlightenment Period. Initiated by the Scientific Revolution, it further expounded on the philosophy of a natural and humanistic approach to seeking answers to our how man and the world came to exist, thus quelling the absolutism of God. Rooted in classical Greek Aristotelian philosophy, the new world thinking …show more content…
Elements of socialism evident in the American educational system today, began in 1839. Intellectual elitist, Horace Mann, through his publication, the Common School Journal propagated his ideas regarding the need for a government-run public education system. Mann, steadfast in his view that “the state is the father of children” (Horace Mann), believed the Prussian model of education, based on the premise that only the crown controlled the curriculum content and eliminated any subject matter that fostered critical thinking or challenged authority. This falls in line with Karl Marx and Friedrick Engels statements in The Communist Manifesto, “The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother 's care, shall be in state institutions at state expense” (1848, p49). Mann believed that Christianity was a hindrance to the social obedience indoctrination and elimination of Biblical presupposition. Mann’s enforcement to institute a secular educational system has roots in the philosophy of Johann Fitche who claimed that “from the very beginning the pupil should be continuously and completely under the influence of this education, and should be separated altogether from the community, and kept from all contact with it” (Hicks, page 113). In order for Mann to further his socialist,