Eighth Grade Education circa - 1895 - - (long)

[Tonks]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
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> This is one of those emails that is bouncing around from person
> to person, but I thought it was interesting. This is an actual
> 8th grade final exam taken from the historical archives in
> Kansas.
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> What it took to get an 8th grade education in 1895...
>
> Remember when grandparents and great-grandparents stated that they
> only had an 8th grade education? Well, check this out. Could any
of us have passed the 8th grade in 1895?

Tonks:

I am impressed by the test. My father was born in 1900 and only
had an 8th grade education. Back then farm kids often did
not go to town to High School, they stayed and worked on the farm.
My father was a very smart man, who started his own successful 
business and was very well respected in town. He used to shake his 
head and say to me "what are they teaching you in that school 
anyway?!" lamenting the education that I got in the 50's and 60's. 
It is even worse today, if you ask me. Half the kids can't speak 
English. As in "me and my friends are going....." to hell in a 
handbasket if you ask me. I could not spell when in school and still 
can't. But the education of the 50's was still better than today. I 
have no doubt that the education that father's generation had was 
far superior to that of both mine and of today.

Tonks_op