History of Education

Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools and American Society, 1780-1860 by Carl Kaestle

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This was an interesting view into the history of American Education and the creation of common public schooling.  With all that is going on dealing with education, teachers, and government right now I feel it is very important for everyone to read this.  Especially those in power.

Admittedly it is not a perfect book, while it looked at different races and groups, it completely ignored Jews and any influence or interest they may have had in education during this time.  And there was a total of two sentence that even mentioned American Indians in anyway, much less what was going on with them in terms of American education.  But overall a very good scholastic read.



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