The end goal of Catherine Beecher's Board of National Public Education and Calvin Stowe were to advance a society in the newly forming American Midwest that would advocate a school reform like the Eastern United States had been seeing. Stowe and Beecher had different visions for how they wanted to accomplish schooling, but they shared a common interest in further developing the school kids in order, propriety, and education. Beecher and the Board of Public National Public Education encouraged to send women westward to teach in the developing midwestern schools. Although against social standards, there were a lack of teachers, and the women would be those chosen to reap the benefits. The women would gain an occupation and individaul freedom to move west while the school kids were taught by teachers with "motherly instincts." This is still similar in modern schooling in the way that many teachers in the classroom are women.
On the other hand, Calvin Stowe was a Whig from Ohio (Urban 90.) After traveling to Prussia to study their schooling systems, he desired to work a similar schooling system into Ohio. The Prussian schools he visited were very border-like in manner. The students were taught a multitude of subjects and focused on areas that taught order, discipline, and religion. At these schools housing expenses were cut by nearly one-third and materials were not as hardly wasted compared to the standard American household. Stowe visited a school for common kids and another school particularly for poor children. The settings resembled those of a religious, private college. What Stowe liked the most was the religious teachings, great faculty, and exercises for opportunity. However, what truly stood out to Stowe and what he would like to have seen in Ohio society was the element of removed sectarian bigotry (Frazer 83.) Although his goal did not pass, he still was a powerful force in Ohio. The Prussian school system I would say is somewhat relateble to the private schools in America. There is the focus on religion and develpoing the characters of the students.
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