The article “the common school” gives detailed information on how the school started in the Eighteen Century. Schools are considered the most familiar of all civic institutions. The coming together of communities in the Eighteen century to contribute resources together and employ teachers to train or teach their children was the beginning of common school. Although these schools have some issues as they encourage racism, discrimination of all types. This led to the development of public schools, which are funded by the government using tax.

One of the words that I found it very interesting in this article is “Sphere”, page 16 row 20. The word sphere is a round solid figure, or its surface, with every point on its surface equidistant from its center. However, in the context of the textbook, the paragraph before row 20, the author was discussing the characteristics of a common school as a school that represents or promotes gender discrimination, financial inequalities, cultural biases, value challenges, and racism. The introduction or use of the word ‘sphere’, in the succeeding paragraph, shows an effort to change the existing characteristics. The word sphere was used together with the public, to form a public sphere, which can be defined as an area in social life where people can freely come together to discuss and identify social problems, which can prompt or influence political action. A sphere in the context is an avenue to create or make the public schools be a place where people or students gather regardless of their cultural, financial, or ethnic background. 

Sentence that I liked in this article Page 11, row 14 15. They often favored boys over girls and charged parental fees to supplement the town’s support. The reason why I chose the sentence is to provide insight into gender discrimination. This sentence showed the gender discrimination in the 18th century between men and women. Short-term schools were described to favor boys over a girl during the Eighteen century. Gender discrimination can be defined as a situation whereby people are treated differently due to their gender status (it is because they are either female or male). This could also be referred to as gender inequality or gender injustice. This means that during the 18th century, male children or boys were educated compared to their female counterparts. Another reason why I chose this sentence is that it is still a critical issue in our society today as gender discrimination continues to exist in every area of life. In some countries or organizations, an employer may treat an employer unfairly or poorly because of their gender (woman or man). Some job advert often states specifically that the position is more suitable for a male applicant. This issue resulted in the development and enactment of the Equality Act, which is against any form of gender discrimination. 

In this article there were a lot of metaphor and phrase make me thinks deeply of the meaning one of them is: Snail-paced gait page 13, row 16. The reason why I chose this phrase is that it was used as an idiomatic expression in the context or used to illustrate the state of the education system. The phrase showed us how was the education system was moving very slowly or extremely slow. This phrase was used by Jefferson during his plan or desire to transform or reform the education system. The phrase was used as a justification for why the legislature should approve or grant his request. Jefferson emphasized the need to educate the young ones because their survival depends on it as well as their ability to elect virtuous leaders depends on the knowledge or training, they could achieve in the school. The education system was already battling with different issues before, and this was why Jefferson stated that the education system was moving extremely slow (Snail paced gait).