# data[].attributes.headline
The major thrust of schools was to preserve the status quo. 18th-century schools were preparing children to take the place of their parents. To be like their parents. - Kathryn Kish Sklar (historian)

# data[].attributes.subject
The major thrust of schools was to preserve the status quo. 18th-century schools were preparing children to take the place of their parents. To be like their parents. - Kathryn Kish Sklar (historian)

# data[].attributes.body
At the time, schooling was about status. It was about parents seeking for their children to stand out from the crowd and set themselves up for success as adults, like their parents. It was focused on the individual and earning accolades rather than learning, and parents liked it that way.

# data[].attributes.headline
If you take away a man’s food, he would cease to exist. If you take away his philosophy, he would scarcely know it was gone. – Virginia Assemblyman

# data[].attributes.subject
If you take away a man’s food, he would cease to exist. If you take away his philosophy, he would scarcely know it was gone. – Virginia Assemblyman

# data[].attributes.body
Slowly through time your outlook on life and morals could be changed until eventually you are a completely different person without realizing it.

# data[].attributes.headline
A general education for any man will help him to determine what will endanger or secure his freedom. – Thomas Jefferson 

# data[].attributes.subject
A general education for any man will help him to determine what will endanger or secure his freedom. – Thomas Jefferson 

# data[].attributes.body
I believe that this quote emphasizes the importance that general education has for all of man, regardless of race and gender (though perhaps not entirely gender, considering this is an older quote), as it allows him to determine how to protect his freedoms.

This quote also emphasizes the importance of receiving guidance and knowledge to be able to identify a path to freedom and anything that threatens it. Jefferson also comments on how people of color can utilize education to escape segregation.

# data[].attributes.headline
Survival of the democracy depends on education for all its citizens. If a society expects to be both ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be. - Jefferson 

# data[].attributes.subject
Survival of the democracy depends on education for all its citizens. If a society expects to be both ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be. - Jefferson 

# data[].attributes.body
You need education so you can fully understand your rights and freedom in America. True freedom can not be reached if the masses are ignorant to their surroundings (government, life, skills, ect.)

# data[].attributes.headline
School is where we became aware of something larger than ourselves. We became one nation. - (Narrator) 

# data[].attributes.subject
School is where we became aware of something larger than ourselves. We became one nation. - (Narrator) 

# data[].attributes.headline
Schools should promote a national history. A place where we could feel we had a unified culture. It has to be built upon legends of the founding fathers… to promote our national ideals. - Noel Webster 

# data[].attributes.subject
Schools should promote a national history. A place where we could feel we had a unified culture. It has to be built upon legends of the founding fathers… to promote our national ideals. - Noel Webster 

# data[].attributes.body
We feel this quote means that Noel wants the foundation of our education to be unified through our shared history. It fosters patriotism and creates a shared culture.

# data[].attributes.headline
Why should there be state funding and regulation of something as local as education? - (legislator in resistance to Jefferson’s bill) 

# data[].attributes.subject
Why should there be state funding and regulation of something as local as education? - (legislator in resistance to Jefferson’s bill) 

# data[].attributes.body
Context of this quote: Thomas Jefferson proposed a bill for the more general diffusion of knowledge.

As for the meaning behind this quote, the reason that this legislator is against state funding and regulation of local education is that it could make things overly strict and complicated, leading to issues down the line. He feels that this could be prevented by letting local authority deal with education.

# data[].attributes.headline
If you fell off the hay cart and hit your head too many times, you might be chosen to be the teacher for the village school. 

# data[].attributes.subject
If you fell off the hay cart and hit your head too many times, you might be chosen to be the teacher for the village school. 

# data[].attributes.body
I think this quote represents that the best instructors chosen for the job are persistent and have made mistakes

# data[].attributes.headline
They refuse to be part of a system biased against themselves. (view of Irish Catholics in the 19th century) 

# data[].attributes.subject
They refuse to be part of a system biased against themselves. (view of Irish Catholics in the 19th century) 

# data[].attributes.body
They refuse to be part of a system that discriminates against themself and is seen as unfair to be a part of it

# data[].attributes.headline
For Blacks, a better education didn’t mean a better position in society or a better job. So education for what? Well, the educated were free. So a struggle for education was a struggle for freedom. - (historian) 

# data[].attributes.subject
For Blacks, a better education didn’t mean a better position in society or a better job. So education for what? Well, the educated were free. So a struggle for education was a struggle for freedom. - (historian) 

# data[].attributes.body
Education provided opportunities and freedom but for black people at this time, it was a struggle. A struggle of education means there was a struggle for freedom. They didn’t have the opportunities or freedoms that white people in society.

# data[].attributes.headline
It’s a free school system. It knows no distinction between rich and poor. It throws open its doors to the bounty of the state. - Horace Mann 

# data[].attributes.subject
It’s a free school system. It knows no distinction between rich and poor. It throws open its doors to the bounty of the state. - Horace Mann 

# data[].attributes.body
Meaning, To provide accessible education

Context, "Horace Mann (1796-1859) was an advocate for free public schools for all children."

Our interpretation, Everyone has a right to an equal education

Daisy Forbes and Lauren Reitz