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| Format | Book Chapter |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Stine, Clyde S. |
| Title, Analytic | The Pennsylvania Germans and the School |
| Author, Monographic | Wood, Ralph |
| Title, Monographic | The Pennsylvania Germans |
| Date of Publication | 1942 |
| Location in Work | 105-127 |
| Abstract | The Pennsylvania German farmer, when the public school system was introduced in the nineteenth century, could not understand why the state wanted to educate his children. For him real education took place on the farm, where children were already at nine years of age integral parts of the farm community. The school, he thought, was to teach his children how to read, write and calculate enough for the purposes of the rural economic and social world in which they lived. His was the responsibility for their turning out to be worthwhile members of the community.The history of education among the Pennsylvania Germans in the nineteenth century is one long record of the attempt by the state to set aside the philosophy of education outlined above, particularly to take over from the home the educating of the Pennsylvania German children in a way of life, instead of merely teaching them the three "R's"; further to direct their ambitions toward the higher learning and city occupations like those of teaching, doctoring, engineering and factory work, rather than farming, and to weaken the direct influence of the churches on the schools. |
| Call Number | MKI/SHS F 160 .G3 W66 |
| MKI Terms | Pennsylvania Germans/ German Americans -- Pennsylvania/ Education/ Schools/ Farm life/ Pennsylvania |