ABSTRACT
Summary: This chapter will consider the debates and institutional changes that foreshadowed the development of the common school system and modern system of higher education. I will focus this chapter on: The argument of world culture theorists that Western schooling spread around the globe with new ideas about government; The issue of schooling and cultural diversity in the new republic; Noah Webster and education for a new American language and culture; Thomas Jefferson and the education of American leaders; Education as a source of moral reform; Childhood in the new republic; The development of charity schools; Growth of the American college.
