Changing Education- From Rich White Guys to Everyone

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From the very birth of European colonization, there was some kind of education system put in place. The schools dating back to this time gave a sense of religious devotion and taught the scholarly skills. Our American education system has followed the same cycle for all of our critical time periods. We have just experienced some of these changes in different ways. The phrase "history repeats it self" is such a true statement, as can be seen through our education system. It is a cycle of a great "rebirth" or "awakening" that ends with some sort of crisis to reform whatever wrong doings there have been in the system.
Now how does this cycle relate to our school system?
Because our society is ever-changing, school's have to adapt to that change.  During colonial times, our education system focused on religion and the teachings of God. During the Revolutionary period, our young founding fathers were instituting the ideas of government and democracy. In the era of Post-Civil War America, we had to educate a new population of citizens who were ten years old, but were illiterate due to years of slavery.
We teach our students how to be progressive, we teach them how to express their ideas in the face of oppression, and we teach them to speak their mind. In both the past and present, we prepare our students for the times. In revolution time, it was to be a democratic thinker for a male and a seamstress for a women. In today's schools, we focus on STEM and how to use technology in order to adapt to our fast-pace society filled with inventors.

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