Talk:Foundations and Assessment of Education/Edition 1/Foundations Table of Contents/Chapter 3/3.2.1

Reader Responses
(Please post your Reader Responses below this line and make sure to include your four tilde) It is fascinating, to me, to read about how the public school system came to be. History is one of my favorite subjects, so I will definitely be reading more on this topic. I have heard of the McGuffey readers. I give my hat off to Mann, McGuffey and others that played a part in starting the public school system.Msmhobbs04 (talk) 21:06, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

I enjoyed this article. I never knew that Horce Mann did anything else but write textbooks. It blew me away that he was nothing more than a secretary after he finished law at Brown. Shocking huh? Anyways, I have actually seen some old McGuffey readers that were like the ones talked about in the article. However, I have also seen really old ones that had bible versus on them. That wasn't mentioned here but there are ones out there that were used very early on in reading education. I find it amazing how far education has come since Mann and others days. Society as a whole changes so quickly and so does education. Just think, one day future educators will be writing about us. Hcomb003 (talk) 18:55, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

This is a wonderful article! I beleive that the changes in education during the 19th century were paramount in the development of the modern system. Without the mandate for public schools (though strictly for white students), many children would still be struggling to receive an education from a private source. Public schools opened doors, literally and figurately, to learning opportunites for the nation's young people. The McGuffey readers were the first true textbooks. What I find unique about these old readers is that they allowed students to learn about a variety of subjects in one textbook. I consider this the first attempt at true teaching across the curriculum (i.e. teaching reading in the content area). I believe that Mann and McGuffey are true educational pioneers and this article does a great job highlighting their achievements. Acrow005 (talk) 22:40, 10 July 2009 (UTC)