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  2. History of education - Wikipedia

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    According to legendary accounts, the rulers Yao and Shun (ca. 24th–23rd century BC) established the first schools. The first education system was created in the Xia dynasty (2076–1600 BC). During the Xia dynasty, the government built schools to educate aristocrats about rituals, literature, and archery (important for ancient Chinese ...

  3. History of education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    When the Republicans came to power in the Southern states after 1867, they created the first system of taxpayer-funded public schools. Southern Blacks wanted public schools for their children but they did not demand racially integrated schools. Almost all the new public schools were segregated, apart from a few in New Orleans.

  4. Prussian education system - Wikipedia

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    The Prussian system had by the 1830s attained the following characteristics: [10] Free primary schooling, at least for poor citizens; Professional teachers trained in specialized colleges; A basic salary for teachers and recognition of teaching as a profession; An extended school year to better involve children of farmers; Funding to build schools

  5. Horace Mann - Wikipedia

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    Horace Mann was born in Franklin, Massachusetts. [4] His father was a farmer without much money. Mann was the great-grandson of Samuel Man. [5]From age ten to age twenty, he had no more than six weeks' schooling during any year, [6] but he made use of the Franklin Public Library, the first public library in America.

  6. History of Catholic education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Catholic school system in the United States; its principles, origin, and establishment (1908), down to 1840 online. Burns, J. A. The growth and development of the Catholic school system in the United States (1912), from 1840 to 1911. online; Cassidy, Francis P. "Catholic Education in the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. I."

  7. Educational system - Wikipedia

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    The educational system [1] generally refers to the structure of all institutions and the opportunities for obtaining education within a country. It includes all pre-school institutions, starting from family education, and/or early childhood education, through kindergarten, primary, secondary, and tertiary schools, then lyceums, colleges, and faculties also known as Higher education (University ...

  8. Common school - Wikipedia

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    A common school was a public school in the United States during the 19th century. Horace Mann (1796–1859) was a strong advocate for public education and the common school. In 1837, the state of Massachusetts appointed Mann as the first secretary of the State Board of Education [1] where he began a revival of common school education, the effects of which extended throughout America during the ...

  9. School - Wikipedia

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    Within the Qur'anic school system, there are levels of education. They range from a basic level of understanding, called chuo and kioni in local languages, to the most advanced, which is called ilimu. [27] In Nigeria, the term school broadly covers daycares, nursery schools, primary schools, secondary schools and tertiary institutions. Primary ...