Throughout the text, Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory by Jonathan Zimmerman attempted to debunk the false realities of what people imaged our educational system before it was reformed. Zimmerman examined how the little red schoolhouse has been considered a symbol for our nation since the nineteenth century, and the one-room, single teacher school brought our country back to a simpler time.
It was interesting to read about the different opinions that people had regarding the old fashioned, one-room schoolhouse. As many people romanticized the concept of this form of education, it was a misconception of what the schools really had to offer their students. In reality majority of the schoolhouses were not painted