History of Education

In class we looked at the history of education in Canada.  Schools back then compared to schools today are VERY different.  The biggest difference being that the church played a much bigger role in schools back then.  Today the church is totally seperate from schools.  But back then most of their learning would be based on religion.  Sometimes it wouldn't even be teachers teaching.  In the French tradition priests would teach.  In the english schools widowers and housewives would teach at the poorer schools.  Another thing that was quite different was that in French schools boys and girls would be seperated.  This is not a big surprise that they did this back then because boys and girls were treated so differently back then.  It even said in the French tradition that boys would even get better education.  But it is great to know that today both females and males are given equal opporunities in education. 

In our Canadian history classes we talked a lot about assimilation schools in Manitoba.  There was some sad stories that we talked about.  Kids had to be taken away from their homes at such a young age and could no longer embrace their own culture.  A lot has changed since those days and now we can look back and learn from our history.