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What is The Common School Exception about?

The secure place of the Bible in the plans of Americans who created the nation’s common schools meant that education was the one sphere of American life where the Bible remained central for the nation’s civilization. Historian David Komline has documented the influence of European models of public education that stressed an active state, enhanced teacher training, and the prominence of religious instruction. Protestant Americans, divided among themselves on many matters, agreed that the Bible almost all of them used (the King James Version) could serve as a “nonsectarian” tool to help public schools promote the virtue without which a republic would fail. In different ways, the era’s leading school reformers (Thomas Eddy in New York, Horace Mann in Massachusetts, Calvin Stowe in Ohio) made daily reading of the King James Version crucial for their reforming efforts. Through the 1830s even some Catholic leaders more or less signed on to these plans. Additionally, the most widely used school textbooks—especially those by Lindley Murray and William Holmes McGuffey—used biblical material freely in promoting the educational and moral goals of school reformers.

Author

Mark A. Noll

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN