New Hampshire Education!!!
By: Amy M
Education in colonial New Hampshire was pretty different from education now. If you were a high-class child, you would learn to read, to write, simple math, prayers, and poems. Since paper and textbooks were scarce, children would recite lessons over and over again until they memorized it. The only books the kids would use would be the Bible, a primer, and a hornbook, which they learned to read from. A middle-class child, such as the son of a planter, would start out being taught at home. The school day started at about 7 a.m. with a male tutor in a school room. They had many breaks during the day; at about 9 a.m. they had breakfast, and dinner was from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Boys studied math, science, celestial navigation, geography, history, fencing, social etiquette, plantation management, Greek, and Latin. The sons of rich planters then went to England to study law or medicine. Otherwise, they would return home to run the plantation. Girls learned enough reading, writing and arithmetic enough to record household expenses and read Bibles. The person who taught them was a governess, usually from England. They studied music, art, social etiquette, needlework, spinning, weaving cooking, nursing, and French. After that, girls did not have the chance to go to England because Education was not considered important for young ladies.
http://www.stratfordhall.org/ed-boysgirls.html
Picture: www.centennial.k12.mn.us/.../kids.jpg
