Old-Fashioned Education
Things have changed in a hundred and fifty years
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Friday, September 05, 2008
Like I mentioned last week, I’m working my way through the Little House books. One thing I’m noticing is this: education sure was different back then.
On the first day that Laura and Carrie go to school in their new town in The Long Winter, the teacher reads the twenty-third psalm to start the day. “Of course Laura knew all the psalms by heart,” the text says, and my eyebrows shot up. Of course... READ MORE
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