That teaches everything. You think every one room schoolhouse was staffed by someone who knew every topic well enough to teach others?
If something wasn’t in the handful of textbooks, there was no way to get that information.
I don’t think he ever made it to algebra, definitely nothing like chemistry or physics. Biology would have been a joke, and astronomy likely limited to memorizing the order of planets.
2 person classes would be a dream compared to the overburdened 30+ person classes of today. You get half of a private tutor? Hell yeah.
That teaches everything. You think every one room schoolhouse was staffed by someone who knew every topic well enough to teach others?
If something wasn’t in the handful of textbooks, there was no way to get that information.
I don’t think he ever made it to algebra, definitely nothing like chemistry or physics. Biology would have been a joke, and astronomy likely limited to memorizing the order of planets.
It was not a good education.
And I’m guessing in the era of no internet where you couldn’t easily self-teach subjects you didn’t know so that you could pass that onto the kids.