Background Information for Teachers
Please read the excerpts from the Overview: Education in Pennsylvaniaand Chapter One: The Pillars of Piety and Practical Knowledge: The Growth of Private Education in the "Virtue and Useful Knowledge and the Arts": Education in Pennsylvania Story.
It may be helpful to read the original documents of Dr. Benjamin Rush and Benjamin Franklin on education in their entirety:
Thoughts Upon the Mode of Education
posals Relating to the Education of Youth
It may be helpful to read the original documents of Dr. Benjamin Rush and Benjamin Franklin on education in their entirety:
Thoughts Upon the Mode of Education
posals Relating to the Education of Youth
Further Reading
Cressman, Elmer W. The History of Pennsylvania. New York, NY: Noble and Noble, 1944.
This book provides some additional information regarding the development of education in Pennsylvania
Dunaway, Wayland F. A History of Pennsylvania. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1935.
A comprehensive history of the state that spends a good portion on the development of education in Pennsylvania.
