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Huckleberry Finn Education In The 1800's

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After reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and researching primary education in the mid 1800’s, I understand why Huck Finn did not like going to school. Huckleberry Finn thought that going to school was a waste of time and energy. As it turns out, attending school in the 1800’s was not mandatory. Most of Huckleberry Finns education came from real world interactions and life experiences. Schools in the 1800s were typically one room with a single teacher trying to teach grades one through eight. The subjects taught were reading, writing, arithmetic, history and geography. Children sat on hard seats, they wrote on slate boards with chalk, had to memorize their lessons and recite them back to the class. In the beginning of the book
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