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Ronald Mangravite
American Prep
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In colonial times, the education of the young was a matter exclusively for the highest classes. Tutors were employed to teach both boys and girls to read and write. Formal education, which consisted of Greek, Latin, rhetoric, logic, and mathematics, was given to the boys, or at minimum the eldest boy of a family. Girls’ education combined academics with social skills and the arts.
The academies promoted – and continue to promote – ideals of academic excellence, civic idealism, and social inclusivity. Andover’s first African American student, Richard T. Greener, class of 1865, was also Harvard College’s first black graduate. The Maidenhead Academy, later reorganized as the Lawrenceville School (NJ), enrolled students from Cuba and the Cherokee Nation as early as the 1830s. Catholic boarding schools in the United States began with the founding of the Georgetown Preparatory School (MD) in 1789. This era also saw the rise of girls’ schools, including the Emma Willard School (NY) in 1814, and Miss Porter’s School (CT) in 1843. Initially, the girls’ schools featured social graces and less rigorous academics, but the advent of women’s colleges turned the girls’ schools’ focus to college preparation. Military boarding schools also began in this period with Carson Long Military Academy (PA) in 1837. Virginia’s Episcopal High School, the state’s first high school, was founded in 1839.
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