Reflection paper 19

In the Colonial times, your society was based on rank. What you did and how you were perceive was all in what your parents did, and what was passed down to you. The colonial times used ranks. It wasn’t what you put in it, it was how much money you could provide, and that will do the talking for you. Judges and Ministers were considered top of the line royalty. This also comes to play in what they taught the kids in school. Considering your royalty were Ministers, the majority of your education was on religion. What was royalty, was obviously what was right, at least that’s how they saw it. The kids were treated equally to what their parents rank were, if you were lower class you did not get the extra treatment as the other kids. This was most important when it came to education. Education was a gift, a gift that not all should be given, yet it was still desirable to all. When it came to reading, everyone wanted to learn, though not everyone could because of your rank. If you had no money, you could not be shown these privileges because only the wealthy were taught the desirable subjects. The longer you stayed in school, the wealthier you were as well as your peers. In the colonial times elementary school was not to educate, it was to promise the youth to grant them their social station, and to encourage them to continue to go to school. They needed a new approach for schools, one where it would go beyond the training of elementary promises, and primary training. The Ministry and the churches decided to build colleges and grammar schools to better their society, to continue they training of the young developers. If it wasn’t for the Ministry or the churches, schools wouldn’t have been invented and our society would lack the greater knowledge. Yet the Ministry and churches wanted everyone to agree with their way of life, with their religion, so they funded the schools and created a new learning environment that would benefit them as well as society. Being a teacher was considered middle class and some were considered high class, you had the knowledge that everyone wanted to learn. Everyone committed their life to the jobs that they did, if they were doing a job they did it well, to their full ability. They did it with what ever that had, and gave it all they had. Teachers had a role they had to play. You either excelled at something, or you didn’t have a job at the end of the day. In order to be in a job, you had to be the best. In society teachers were considered greatness, nothing bad came from them. When they created high schools only boys could attend, eventually along the line girls were able to join, but it wasn’t years among years until it happened. Boys always had the upper hand on everything; it wouldn’t be introduced to females until the men mastered what ever they were learning.