Social conditions among the Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth century, as revealed in the German newspapers published in America . 1^. CHAPTER IV. THE EDUCATION AND THE EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES OFTHE PENNSYLVANIA GERMANS. A. SCHOOLS.^*^ ^HE educational problem facing the German Americans^^ of the eighteenth century was a difficult one. Sincemost of the immigrants belonged to the peasant class, theyusually had a very poor education, if any at all. Thenumber of illiterates was undoubtedly very large. In1754 an article was published in London describing thecondition of affairs in the province
Social conditions among the Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth century, as revealed in the German newspapers published in America . 1^. CHAPTER IV. THE EDUCATION AND THE EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES OFTHE PENNSYLVANIA GERMANS. A. SCHOOLS.^*^ ^HE educational problem facing the German Americans^^ of the eighteenth century was a difficult one. Sincemost of the immigrants belonged to the peasant class, theyusually had a very poor education, if any at all. Thenumber of illiterates was undoubtedly very large. In1754 an article was published in London describing thecondition of affairs in the province of Pennsylvania.^^^ Tothe authors assertion that one half of the Germans wereuneducated (ungelehrsam), Saur replied that hedoubted the accuracy of this statement. ( Hieran ist sehrzu zweifeln.) However, he did not deny that the num- 265 This chapter does not presume to give a complete history of GermanAmerican education in the eighteenth century. I have limited myselfalmost entirely to material which I found in the Pennsylvania Germannewspapers. It is well known that some schools were established before1750 by the various denominatio
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