Higher Education in the Colonial America

Higher Education in the Colonial America

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Higher Education in the Colonial America

The purpose of higher education in colonial America was to train the minds of the students to think of better ways of making the earth a better place. The education system at the time mostly focused on impacting valuable thoughts and helping the clergymen to be to have creative principles that will make them more powerful and profound (New England’s first fruits, 1970). The institutions of higher learning were also meant to prepare the learners for carrying out leadership rules as colonialists.

Higher education in colonial America was made to lay the groundwork for the clergy. The theological classes were meant to help the clergy to raise enough money that would help the universities to grow. These men were supposed to learn and pass information to the rest of the people about religion and education, at the time, was supposed to help them become creative thinkers (New England’s first fruits, 1970). If I lived in the colonial days I would have been a college student because of the interests to be in leadership that would help me change the world. The college education would have prepared me to take up roles that would increase the thinking capabilities so that I can influence other people to be better.

The values and characteristics of the colonial colleges do not apply a lot these days because of diversification and introduction of new courses in the institutions of higher learning. In colonial America, the colleges mostly trained clergymen for the specific religious role. Universities in this era have widened their scopes as the students are allowed to choose their courses of which they have a passion. The institutions of higher learning in colonial America like Harvard College were meant to train ministers and leaders amongst young people but it has diversified and now offers other courses.

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New Englands first fruits: in respect, first of the counversion of some, conviction of divers, preparation of sundry of the Indians 2. Of the progresse of learning, in the colledge at Cambridge in Massachusetts bay(1970, January 1).. With divers other speciall matters concerning that countrey. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/NewEnglandsFirstFruitsInRespectFirstOfTheCounversionOfSome/page/n21