Emily Familetti:

Education Punishments

This is quote is important because it shows the horrible things that happen in the classroom if a kid is bad or disliked. Most likely if your family did anything bad the teacher would punish you more often. Since all of the kids in the school were the same race and had the same culture and beliefs there was not a lot of discrimination. Another thing that is important in this quote is if you make a mistake you will get punished until you correctly answer the question of test, so there was probably a lot of pressure. This was inhumane because kids always seem to be uncontrolled once in awhile but they should get hurt for it. There was a variety of punishments given out to kids in Colonial America. Some punishments were for the whole class, for example, a whispering stick. It prevents kids from speaking even if they did nothing wrong. This means that you were not allowed to talk during class. The only way you are able to open you mouth is a test. If you messed up in something you were learning you would be shamed. It would embarrass your whole family to know that their kid had to wear a dunce hat. A dunce hat was something you wear on you head to be shamed. You sit in the corner of the classroom with a hat that says dunce.

Marcus:

In Colonial America education played a very important role beyond the lives of one gender, class, or ethnicity. This included the Africans, both free and enslaved, Natives, and Europeans. While the Gentry and poor Europeans had multiple steps to their education, women had close to none. there were three main schools at this time, the Latin Grammar, the neighborhood, and dame schools. while the men and boys had two to themselves, the girls even had to share dame schools with boys. Later on, the colony would develop their own colleges, unless they did that the children went back to England. However, this very plain word they used “children” actually meant boys, for the girls rarely received a college education. Though the European women had very little impact in education, Native and Africans had an even less important part in education. Since the men were the dominant gender and there was no written language, there was barely any education to take part in. Women in other ethnicities needed to make alliances or steal books if they wanted a “formal”, or European, education. Why were the men a more dominant as a gender? Who decided this unspoken rule. Would this be the case if women came to the colony first. Did the amount of education affect the seesaw of power, how? There are so many questions to ask, but there are very little people to answer it. The only way to gain that type of information, is with an education.