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John Locke
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The first Latin Grammar School
The first Latin Grammar School (Boston Latin School) is established. Latin Grammar Schools are designed for sons of certain social classes who are destined for leadership positions in church, state, or the courts. -
The First Free School
The first "free school" in Virginia opens. However, education in the Southern colonies is more typically provided at home by parents or tutors. -
General Court Ruleing
The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony makes a law that every town of fifty families should have an elementary school and that every town of 100 families should have a Latin school. The goal is to ensure that Puritan children learn to read the Bible and receive basic information about their religion. -
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 1778): children are innately good, stage theorist -
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Charles Darwin
dynamic adaptation -
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State Supported Common Schools
Horace Mann- First secatary of the state of Education -
Cathrine Beecher
Catharine Beecher devoted most of her life to the cause of women’s education, believing that women were responsible for the education and moral development of the next generation.
"If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge to others; if they not only knew how to regulate their own minds, tempers, and habits but how to effect improvements in those around them, the face of society would be speedily changed." -
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Classical conditioning
neutral stimulation and unconditioned response paired to create conditioned response
Ivan Pavlov: 1849 – 1936
John b. Watson: 1878 – 1958
