I looked at the High School curriculum for the Georgia Millitary Academy in Marietta, GA for the early 1900's and was astounded. What they had to learn blew away what a college student is supposed to learn today. I wish I had that to post here.
Not from the military academy, but a standard Eight Grade test
circa 1895, was the topic of a thread
here.
By all reckoning, the kids coming out of Laura Ingalls Wilder's one-room schoolhouse were probably better educated than the crop processed through current Ivy League universities.