Where was the first public school located?

Question

Where was the first public school located?

Answer 1

The first public school in America was established by Puritan settlers in 1635 in the home of Schoolmaster Philemon Pormont and was later moved to School Street. A portrait statue of Benjamin Franklin overlooks the site of the oldest public school in America which Franklin, Samuel Adams, and John Hancock once attended. Franklin's place of birth was just oneblock away on Milk Street, across from the Old South Meeting House. The Boston Latin School no longer stands in its once downtown location, but is now located in Boston's Fenway neighborhood.

Answer 2

Mass. sometime after 1700. Sorry I can't exactly remember!

Answer 3

The first Public School in the WORLD, probably, were located in the North East America in the middle to later 1600s.

They were founded by the Presbyterians, Puritans, Congregationalists who mandated that ALL towns must have free schools to teaching reading the Bible, Numbers and writing to ALL children in the area.

There were no Public Schools for the masses prior to this.  Prior to this you had to be a ROYAL or a very rich BURGER or BUSINESS person to pay for a PRIVATE education, which usually came from a CHURCH RUN University in Europe, mostly the CAtholics.

Even the University in Paris paid allegience to the Pontif in Rome.

The Universities in the Middle East followed the Muslim tenents.

So MOST Universities in the world were high relgious until 1800 or so.

You needed a private tutor before that, which meant your family had to be rich enough to hire a Scholar who usually taught at a University to come to your home and teach the kids part time.

From what I have learned PUBLIC SCHOOLS in ENGLAND didn't come until MUCH LATER than in AMERICA, because an educated PESANT was a liablity not an asset.

This became a wide spread thing in the rural North East among the Religious.

Eventually the Religious also founded Higher Educational schools, starting with the Harvard School in the 1700s, which eventually became accecpted by Europe and became, formally, the Harvard College in Massachuessets.

That was the First basic college in America, followed by Williams and Mary and Yale

Almost ALL the Ivy League colleges were Religiously founded in the early years of the Colony or America.

The Schools were taken over by the secular state in the 1800s and 1900s.

To this day, however, religious leaders have a strong influence on virtually ALL the Ivy League and most Private Colleges.

Duke and USC, for example, are heavily adminstarted by the Methodists.

None of the Colleges, however, follow the religious lines to the letter.

Many of them are, for example, working on Artificial Cell creations, which is basically at ODDS with most religions.

The Quasi Religious Colleges put EDUCATION FIRST and RELIGION last.

They have chapels, clergy or Chaplins, but it's not manditory, they employe Atheist teachers and deny admission to no one.  You can be a JEw or Muslim or Atheist and get into Duke or USC IF you mee the requirements.