EDU 120: Lecture question/answer graded A+
2024/2025
Knowledge formation (human capital) for both individual and societal goals - ✔️✔️What is
the purpose of education?
1. Political goals of schooling
2. Social goals of schooling
3. Economic goals of schooling - ✔️✔️What are the three broad goals of schooling?
What is included in the political goals of teaching? - ✔️✔️Maintain political order, prevent
violence, cultivate leaders, etc
ex. Pledge of allegiance
What is included in the social goals of teaching? - ✔️✔️Character education, health + sex
education, social clubs, extracurriculars
ex. The food pyramid
What is included in the economic goals of teaching? - ✔️✔️Preparing individuals for
further schooling, anti poverty programs, compensatory schooling,
How is education a private good? - ✔️✔️One consumes the material; can't have it taken
away
How is education a public good? - ✔️✔️An educated individual is good for the public;
benefits to society in productive workforce
Why is school compulsory? - ✔️✔️Partly to put young people in schools and out of
factories; safety for the streets; children as a vehicle to educate their families
The weird trend concerning satisfaction with own child's education vs satisfaction with
US schools as a whole - ✔️✔️Overwhelmingly parents are around 77% satisfied with their
own child's education BUT simultaneously are only 48% satisfied with US education as
a whole
What did pre- American Revolution (1700s) schools look like? - ✔️✔️Agricultural society
feat. "short term schools" (10-12 weeks per year); largely in the British colonies, many
charged fees
, Who authored the first bill concerning widespread diffusion of education in 1779? -
✔️✔️Thomas Jefferson authored "Bill for the more general diffusion of knowledge" in
1779
What would a Jefferson system of schooling look like? - ✔️✔️All white males receiving
education until a certain age whereafter the elites would be separated from the regulars
and trained to run the country
What main thing did Jefferson want to teach the American people via education in
schools? - ✔️✔️How to self govern; "The qualifications for self-government are not innate.
They are the result of habit and long training. Above all things I hope the education of
the common people will be attended to." --Jefferson, 1824
How were native Americans treated in early schools? - ✔️✔️Government funded Indian
boarding schools, often run by missionaries, to assimilate Indians to American
(European) values.
Who was Horace Mann? - ✔️✔️"Father of education"; Developed idea of education as
state responsibility funded by national gov; idea of "common education" in the nation
and "equalizing opportunity"; first Secretary to the Massachusetts State Board of
Education from 1837-1848
What role did Horace Mann's ideal school serve in society? (quote) - ✔️✔️"It is a free
school system, it knows no distinction of rich and poor... it throws open its doors and
spreads the table of its bounty for all the children of the state... Education, then, beyond
all other devices of human origin, is the equalizer of the conditions of men, the great
balance wheel of the social machinery." --- Horace Mann (1837)
What did Horace Mann's ideal school look like? (characteristics) - ✔️✔️-No tuition, funded
by local property taxes
-Governed by local school committees
-Usually up to 8 years of instruction
-Open to all white children
-Taught core values of citizenship (pan-Protestant perspective)
-Basic literacy and numeracy
Was primary schooling always compulsory? - ✔️✔️State specific, particularly slow in the
South; Variation in attendance laws, from minimum
of 7 to maximum of 16 years
Were early American schools administrators accepting of diversity? - ✔️✔️No; many
believed the "goal of school 'to teach an appreciation of the institutions of this country
and an absolute forgetfulness of all...other countries because of descent or birth."
2024/2025
Knowledge formation (human capital) for both individual and societal goals - ✔️✔️What is
the purpose of education?
1. Political goals of schooling
2. Social goals of schooling
3. Economic goals of schooling - ✔️✔️What are the three broad goals of schooling?
What is included in the political goals of teaching? - ✔️✔️Maintain political order, prevent
violence, cultivate leaders, etc
ex. Pledge of allegiance
What is included in the social goals of teaching? - ✔️✔️Character education, health + sex
education, social clubs, extracurriculars
ex. The food pyramid
What is included in the economic goals of teaching? - ✔️✔️Preparing individuals for
further schooling, anti poverty programs, compensatory schooling,
How is education a private good? - ✔️✔️One consumes the material; can't have it taken
away
How is education a public good? - ✔️✔️An educated individual is good for the public;
benefits to society in productive workforce
Why is school compulsory? - ✔️✔️Partly to put young people in schools and out of
factories; safety for the streets; children as a vehicle to educate their families
The weird trend concerning satisfaction with own child's education vs satisfaction with
US schools as a whole - ✔️✔️Overwhelmingly parents are around 77% satisfied with their
own child's education BUT simultaneously are only 48% satisfied with US education as
a whole
What did pre- American Revolution (1700s) schools look like? - ✔️✔️Agricultural society
feat. "short term schools" (10-12 weeks per year); largely in the British colonies, many
charged fees
, Who authored the first bill concerning widespread diffusion of education in 1779? -
✔️✔️Thomas Jefferson authored "Bill for the more general diffusion of knowledge" in
1779
What would a Jefferson system of schooling look like? - ✔️✔️All white males receiving
education until a certain age whereafter the elites would be separated from the regulars
and trained to run the country
What main thing did Jefferson want to teach the American people via education in
schools? - ✔️✔️How to self govern; "The qualifications for self-government are not innate.
They are the result of habit and long training. Above all things I hope the education of
the common people will be attended to." --Jefferson, 1824
How were native Americans treated in early schools? - ✔️✔️Government funded Indian
boarding schools, often run by missionaries, to assimilate Indians to American
(European) values.
Who was Horace Mann? - ✔️✔️"Father of education"; Developed idea of education as
state responsibility funded by national gov; idea of "common education" in the nation
and "equalizing opportunity"; first Secretary to the Massachusetts State Board of
Education from 1837-1848
What role did Horace Mann's ideal school serve in society? (quote) - ✔️✔️"It is a free
school system, it knows no distinction of rich and poor... it throws open its doors and
spreads the table of its bounty for all the children of the state... Education, then, beyond
all other devices of human origin, is the equalizer of the conditions of men, the great
balance wheel of the social machinery." --- Horace Mann (1837)
What did Horace Mann's ideal school look like? (characteristics) - ✔️✔️-No tuition, funded
by local property taxes
-Governed by local school committees
-Usually up to 8 years of instruction
-Open to all white children
-Taught core values of citizenship (pan-Protestant perspective)
-Basic literacy and numeracy
Was primary schooling always compulsory? - ✔️✔️State specific, particularly slow in the
South; Variation in attendance laws, from minimum
of 7 to maximum of 16 years
Were early American schools administrators accepting of diversity? - ✔️✔️No; many
believed the "goal of school 'to teach an appreciation of the institutions of this country
and an absolute forgetfulness of all...other countries because of descent or birth."
