[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Have you ever seen the 8th grade test from back then? Can you imagine a test like this today for 8th graders? The left would be rioting........

https://headsup.scoutlife.org/would-you-pass-this-test/

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Yes, thank you.

We owe McGuffey much credit for our early high literacy.

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William Holmes McGuffey (1800-1873), An American educator, was the president of Ohio University, professor at the University of Virginia and the department chairman at the Miami University of Ohio. He was responsible for forming the first teachers’ association in that part of the nation.

Considered the “Schoolmaster of the Nation,” McGuffey published the first edition of his McGuffey’s Reader in 1836. This was the mainstay in public education in America till 1920. As of 1963, 125 million copies had been sold, making it one of the most widely used and influential textbooks of all times. Millions of American children learned to read and write from that reader
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https://reformed.org/x_old_quotes/info_11-22-02.html

[Sacajaweau]

The year was 1957. We had to learn 100 times more than the 1913 class.

In 1913, they had one book. In 1957, we had a book for each subject.

[telescope115]

I would be in 8th grade forever, I think….😣