LeningerEDUC504

First off I what to say I love history, I am even Co-teaching USVA for the second time this year! Because of this, this article was mostly a bit of a review for me, but it did go into more details about somethings that I never thought of before. I already knew that in the beginning Education was very much based in the dominant religion of the time( Christianity) and was mostly for wealthy, white males who would eventually go on to obtain major positions in the society. This left little room for women, Native Americans, or people or color to grow and develop. I would even argue that despite major changes, this still tends to be the case today. It almost instills in students that unless you are a white male with money, you are destined to a life a of mediocrity. It's not that they are necessarily being told that, but it is simply years and years of this belief that has just become a habit for our students. For example, I work mostly with multi-language learners and a vast majority of...