Brief history of education for ENC3242 blog.

1. History of
Education

2. General Education began in Greece and
Rome
 Citizens were taught the basics of education to help them represent
themselves in disputes over things like land and property.
 This created the foundation for what we consider a general education to be
and brought about philosophers/teachers such as Plato, Aristotle and
Socrates.
 Women and slaves where still exempt from general education.
 Women from wealth could afford private education.

3. The Printing Press and the fall of
Catholicism
 The printing press was created in the late 1400s and allowed for mass
printings, making books cheaper and education more accessible.
 This made the Catholic church mad because they were losing control, so they
started burning people at the stake, and generally murdering people because
of science.
 While Scientists where being burned, women were allowed to learn through
the church, at seminaries.
 People of color where still not allowed an education though.

4. American Education system
 After the American revolution Thomas Jefferson said something along the
lines of 'hey let's make our citizens smart' and everyone ignored him, Until
Massachusetts created education laws in 1852that made people go to school
and all the other states followed suit.
 Public education was nationwide by 1918 and women could finally go to
school. Not people of color though.
 The supreme court made sure people were stayed segregated with the Plessy
V. Ferguson supreme court case of 1896, where segregation was deemed
acceptable because it was "separate but equal".

5. The End of Educational Segregation
 "Separate but equal" was a total lie obviously, as many 'colored' school were
underfunded, running on second hand books, and were often missing things
like a cafeteria.
 This changed in 1954 with the supreme court case of Brown V. Board of
Education, where the previous "separate but equal" ruling was overturned.

6. Sources 1
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7. Sources 2
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 Wired Staff. (June 22nd 2012). Galileo to Turing: The Historical Persecution of Scientists.
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 Pruitt, S. (Updated: Aug 31, 2018 Original: May 16, 2018). Brown v. Board of Education: The
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 History.com Editors. (Updated: Feb 21, 2020 Original: Oct 29, 2009). Plessy V. Ferguson.
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