I thought that this chapter was fairly interesting. I found it surprising to see the journey from where we started to where we are now. Something I hadn’t really considered before reading this chapter was the reason for schooling starting up during the industrial revolution. It hadn’t occurred to me previously that one of the reasons that schooling was pushed for was a way to keep juvenile crime down after child labor laws had been implemented. I had always thought it was put forth mainly for ideological reasons for example some of what Horace Mann proposed like building cohesion in the democracy. Something that I kind of felt the authors were suggesting is that the switch from apprenticeship into universal education may have had some flaws to it. It seems like now that perhaps we all need to become apprentices in working with technology, as that future generations will be required to be increasingly fluent in it.
I am not positive how I will use this new thinking in my future teaching. After reading this chapter I mostly took it as placing a setting on why American schools are the way that they are and will probably explain what is needed to be done to have them succeed in the future.
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