Commentary
Education forms the minds of citizens at an impressionable age. What is taught and learned in school eventually effects the life and character of a nation.
Questions like who should control the schools, how education should be delivered, who should be teaching, what students should be learning, and how they should be taught have been with us for centuries.
Schoolteachers and educational reformers have always regarded themselves as both pioneers and revolutionaries. The issues they wrestle with, including faith, philosophy, pedagogical practice, psychology, law, and politics have long—and often unsettled—histories.
Judeo-Christian Origins
At the dawn of European settlement in North America, formal education was generally organized by religious orders….