Education and Religion Ch 11, 12, and 13

The most schools available were public schools with little trained teachers, small school houses packed with many students of different grade levels, and the amount of money was the quality of the education.Tutors were hired for people who wanted to spend their money on their kids education. Girls were normally left at home because their parents felt little education was needed and only men needed it. Harvard University, Brown School. Oberlin College. and Mount Holyoke College. No and usually several grades ranging throughout elementary and high school were taught in the same room. Everyone except immigrants and African Americans were discriminated and were not allowed to attend school. Men with low incomes of money were taught how to trade with lots of industrial skills. Although men with large incomes of money were taught business skills. Slaves maintained their own religious beliefs. Throughout the North and the South their were many churches and some preachers with all races and cultures including slaves who would sneak in.