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__**Lyrics for "American Education in the 1800s" by YouTube User "TrickDaddy900000":** __ Free [|Education] , 1800s, people first thought it was joke Public [|schools] were built to teach deprived children of the broke Then the wealthy smart Americans came to a scary realization They realized uneducated kids would grow up to be political opposition

Since those kids would grow up and someday have the right to vote A couple reforms about education is what conservative Americans wrote <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">But the free school system had a lot of problems <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Teachers wouldnt teach enough and they loved to harm em

<span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Into the picture came this guy named Horace Mann <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Secretary of Mass Board of education, he decided to try as best he can <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">To help out schools across America, he felt the scholastic pain <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">So for better condtions, he decided to campaign

<span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">He called for the Prussian school model all across the nation <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Which is the belief that everyone is entitled to the same education <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">My boy Horace campaigned for other things too <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Expanded Curriculum, longer school terms, and better buildings for the schools

<span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Horace mann, up in here didnt get school improvements done alone, no sir <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Another guy who helped the movement was named the Webster <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">He graduated Yale and was born in the state of Connecticut <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hes often times considered the Schoolmaster of the Republic

<span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">His useful reading lessons were used nationwide by millions of children <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And these lessons were designed to promote patriotism <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Published in 1828, he wrote Websters dictionary <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Took 20 yrs to write, and helped standardize the vocabulary

<span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">There is this teacher and preacher from Ohio named William H. McGuffey <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">To grade-school readers he sold 122 million copies <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">McGuffey's readers a textbook for schools which was packed with lessons <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Taught things like morality patriotism and idealism

<span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Other than through schools, education was sought <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">If you wanted to get smart, you didnt have to be taught <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Private subscription libraries and tax-supported libraries expanded <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Learning was brought to the masses by lyceum lecture associations

<span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In education back in the day religon played a big role <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The second great awakening led to the creation of many small denominational <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Liberal arts colleges mostly in the south and west <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">However, these schools werent thought of as the best

<span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">These schools only taught Mathematics and Moral philosophy <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And the ancient traditional languages like latin and greek <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">There was little intellectual vitality and a lot of boredom <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And the non-religious scholars needed a university for them

<span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">State colleges were popping up, federal land [|grants] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">helped their growth <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The first state universities were showin up in the south <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">First one was in North Carolina, 1795 <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Then came UVA 0n 1-8-1-9

<span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Free education in America, man it was pretty tight <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The future of United States schools was lookin pretty bright <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Educational advances finally happened though it took real long <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And I cant think of any thing else, so it's the end of this song.