Questions tagged [education]
Education is a process of organized teaching and learning.
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When did “&” stop being taught alongside the alphabet?
I've recently discovered that "&" was taught alongside the alphabet letters. While not being considered a letter per se, many students must have seen '&' as effectively the 27th letter of the ...
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How did a student grant work in 18th/19th century Western Europe
I am making research for a book, and I need details about grants/scholarships in Western Europe around the beginning of the 19th century, ideally for a teenager living far away from the applied school....
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How did Japan get so many Nobel Prizes?
Japan in the last 80 years has earned nearly 30 Nobel Prizes, which is more than any other Asian country (at least two of which dwarf it in terms of population). In the 21'st century, only the United ...
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What happened to the undergrad students who attended the Feynman Lecture Series in 1961-63?
In the academic years of 1962-2 and 1962-3, Richard Feynman gave his celebrated series of lectures to a cohort of undergraduate physics students at Caltech. It has been claimed, probably tongue in ...
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Why do schools in Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea use the Westminster Quarters as school chime?
Today, I read about the Westminister Quarters, the chime used by Big Ben in Westminster, London. In that article, I see this assertion:
Most schools in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea play the ...
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Creating a “focused research question” for a history paper, unsure how to create a question that inspires debate [closed]
My topic: Systematic oppression through education as demonstrated in black children (in the 1900s)
I'll explain each of my drafts and why they didn't work:
Why where black children oppressed through ...
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What were the typical arguments against women's higher education in XIX century Germany?
I have been reading about the life of Emmy Noether. A problem that she was faced with in her youth was that, at that time in Germany, women were not allowed to study at universities.
At that time, ...
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At what point did high school become a standard prerequisite for university students in the USA?
Earlier in US history, it was common for universities to admit students via entrance exam. A quote in this answer quoting Colonial Education explains "The boys from upper class families were taught be ...
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Who are the three men standing and what are they holding at this University of Paris Doctors' Meeting?
The image below is used on several sites but none of them give much information on this painting other than "Medieval Education in Europe: Meeting of Doctors in the University of Paris" and the source ...
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Why did the GHQ not promote English during the occupation? [closed]
I wonder why GHQ did not force Japanese people to use the English language during the occupation, or at least add English to one of its official languages, much like Hong Kong under occupation by UK. ...
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Do we know who graduated from the University of Mexico in the 1700s?
The Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico was the country's first and foremost university in the colonial period. According to George I. Sánchez, by 1776 it had awarded 29,882 bachelor's and 1,162 ...
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Why did the US enact compulsory education?
Why did the US enact compulsory education? The wikipedia article actually isn't very helpful, at least where the intentions of the people who campaigned for this are concerned. I seem to remember ...
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Were Egyptian Pharaohs literate?
This video says scribes read letters to the king as the king was not literate. Can anyone comment on this
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How did an honor society get named as if it were a Chinese gang?
Honor societies and fraternities are a fixture in U.S. colleges. Most often they use Greek letters for their names, and some have names in English. However, the men's honor society of Santa Cruz High ...
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What happened to University College of San Francisco?
In 1859, the Reverend George Burrowes founded University College in San Francisco. Confusingly, it was also known as City College. Burrowes advertised the school in the Daily Alta California newspaper....
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What education was required for a woman to become a teacher in pre-WWII Germany?
When a woman wanted to become a teacher in Germany of the first half of 20th century, she had to
attend a preparatory school for 2 years (Präparandenanstalt), and then
spend 3-6 years at a female ...
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Who were the earliest Californian university students?
In California's Spanish and Mexican eras there was not much formal education. The nearest university was that of Guadalajara, founded in 1792. The Híjar-Padrés colony of 1834 brought teachers who ...
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Did the treaty of Versailles require closure of German cadet schools?
I'm hoping someone can give me a definitive answer about whether German military schools/academies ("kadettenanstalt" - secondary school level) were forced to close by the Treaty of Versailles. It ...
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Education during World War 2
I'm currently working on a research paper for my World War II class and I've decided that I wanted to pursue the topic of education in Nazi occupied Europe during WWII.
However, after doing loads of ...
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Where did United States colleges rank internationally during the 19th century?
I have read that the USA was far behind Europe until maybe the 1930s. But just what were the limitations of US colleges prior to that?
EDIT: I realize there was unlikely to have been any published ...
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How accurate was the depiction of the Japanese Canadian community in the movie Vancouver Asahi?
In the movie "Vancouver Asahi", it is shown that
Japanese Canadians in Vancouver lived in their ethnic neighborhood and did not mingle with white Canadians at work.
second generation "Nisei" people ...
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What kind of education would a 12th/13th century English knight get?
I'm trying to get inside the heads of historical actors of the period. I'm sure the martial class was just as diverse as any social group, but give me the best summation that you can.
I'll expand a ...
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How were artisans trained in Ancient Egypt?
I would like to know how artisans like potters and blacksmiths were trained to specialize in their trade in ancient civilizations. In particular, I am interested in how this was done in ancient Egypt.
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What kind of training did Imperial military officers receive? [closed]
In the early modern period, European empires maintained their faraway colonies with great armies and navies. Many enlisted soldiers and sailors were barely trained; imperial officers were often ...
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Why didn't Portugal found universities in its colonies like Spain?
Imperial Spain and Portugal conquered and developed huge empires. Both monarchies were Catholic and seized huge amounts of land in the 1500s.
Both European motherlands had numerous universities, but ...
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Were there examples from Renaissance period of a relationship of erotic nature between a teacher and a student or during transmission of knowledge?
The context for my question is drawn from a movie on teaching history. The question per se, pertains to history. I hope that it was triggered by a movie scene is only seen as a context and not as a ...
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How did people apply for university in the 18th century?
Universities have been around for a while.
I am reading a book called Frankenstein.
One of the main characters, Victor Frankenstein, attends the University of Ingolstadt in Germany.
Now, it makes ...
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When did “skipping” grades become common and when did it stop in USA?
I know, for example, that Tom Lehrer (the comedian) went to Harvard at 15 and he said that during WW2 especially, this was not particularly unusual. It is my impression that in the 1930s and 1940s, ...
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The history of US land grant universities and interpreting the Morrill Act
As a student at a large land grant university, I'm curious about the history of the academic climate I live in.
Section 4 of the Morrill Act of 1862 states the following:
...each State which may ...
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Who taught Russian in Eastern-bloc satellite countries?
After the USSR gained many satellites countries in central/eastern Europe in 1945, Russian became obligatory at school. It seems those Russian courses were highly unpopular and only a small minority ...
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How did the education system in Colonial North America work?
I read that Hamilton changed his birth date from 1755 to 1757 to look better for attending King's College. Also, many other Founding Fathers attended colleges at 15 or even younger. What education ...
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How did desegregation affect the jobs of black school teachers in the South?
In its October 6, 1954 issue, the Southern Presbyterian Journal published a report from US News & World Report that suggested that black teachers in the South would be rendered unemployed by ...
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How educated were the Orthodox priests of Imperial Russia around 1800?
In Imperial Russia, "white" priests (as opposed to "black" monks) of the non-noble clergy ministered to the Orthodox public. Entering this profession meant entering a new social class; it did not ...
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What education path had to be followed to study law in 17th century Europe?
How was the path in terms of education for a small kid to follow in years so that he can become a LAWYER in 17th Century in Europe? (Mainly in The Holy Roman Empire).
Thanks!
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What were the required conditions to be accepted by a university in Medieval Times?
What were the conditions to be fulfilled for a free man in the (LATE) Medieval ages, to be accepted by a university as a student?
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Did Romans create dictionaries?
Did the Romans make any efforts to catalogue foreign languages? Or their own? Or none at all? I'm sure none have survived, but were dictionaries as a concept known to their general populace?
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What universities existed in Dutch East Indies, and how available were they to the native population?
In the introduction of his translation to the historical novel Footsteps, the translator Max Lane (who is also described as a researcher on Indonesia) said that in the beginning of the novel, the ...
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Was it normal for New York schools in the late 1960s to be desegregated?
I am currently researching late 1960s America in order to being writing a story. The story is set in 1966 in New York. So were schools (specifically Middle Schools) in New York desegregated by this ...
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What was the first school in Santa Cruz, California? [closed]
Schools were established in and around Santa Cruz, California, as it became more populous in the mid-1800s. Which school, public or private, in or near the city, was first?
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Where other than Kronstadt did the Russian American Company train its employees?
The Russian American Company used to send students of navigation to study at an Imperial college in Kronstadt, then obligate them to work for the Company for a period of years. This was very expensive,...
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Was late-medieval French education recalcitrant to math?
The teaching of mathematics (as we understand the subject today) in France is said to result from Ramus. However, It was his predecessor Oronce Fine who convinced François 1 to include it at the ...
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Changes to the school leaving dates in Scotland and Northern Ireland
I am looking for sources that tell me about when and how the school leaving dates were changed in Scotland and Northern Ireland after World War 2. I define school leaving date as the date you do not ...
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Who was the first US president to graduate from a public university?
I know that most of the presidents went to college and a major portion of those presidents were awarded degrees. Who was the first president to be a graduate of a public university?
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What level of knowledge was required to enter medieval universities?
According to this answer, students at university in the medieval period were generally paying their own way and were independently rich or were selected by the crown or the church, the latter making ...
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Why does the First World War (WW I) play such a minor role today compared to Second World War (WW II)? [closed]
In my experience, in Central Europe, people are more aware of the Second World War, than the First World War. This seems to be the case in other European an American regions, too.
Do others also see ...
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When was corporal punishment last lawfully practised in state schools?
Apparently (wiki) corporal punishment was legal in schools until rather shockingly late. 1986 for English and Welsh state schools, 1998 for private schools, 2000 in all Scottish schools and 2003 in ...
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Why was the British University Grants Committee abolished in 1988?
Wikipedia says that:
The UGC was wound up on 1 April 1989, with its powers transferred to a
new body, the Universities Funding Council, which was directly
responsible to Parliament.
But it's ...
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Who would have a good or fair command of Latin in medieval Western Europe?
This answer to this question states Latin was the language of diplomacy in medieval Western Europe, but this does not imply that royalty or nobility themselves knew Latin: it would suffice that a few ...
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What does this symbol in the title page illustration of the “Margarita Philosophica” mean?
The Margarita Philosophica appeared around the year 1500 CE, written by Gregor Reisch of Freiburg.
The title page of the manuscript contains the fascinating image below, in which the seven primary ...
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When did English become a major subject in Japanese schools?
I used to think older Japanese people wouldn't have studied English at school, and recently came across someone who thought likewise (link available on request).
A middle-aged Japanese person told me ...
