A selection of firsthand accounts by a variety of prominent mid-19th century people describing their experiences as students and/or as teachers in the 1790's. The articles are taken from letters published in the 1860's that were meant to document the progress that education had made up to that time. What life in the one room schoolhouse was really like !
14 years as a classroom teacher;
2 years as teacher of Gifted/Talented;
18 years as an elementary school principal;
5 years supervising student teachers,