Enchanting People of New Mexico - One-room Schoolhouse Teachers

I’m talking today about New Mexico rural one room schoolhouses from the year 1900 to perhaps 1940 or so. It did several very important things in the Territory of New Mexico and then in 1912 we became a state. One-room schoolhouses did some things that are not talked about these days. First, it allowed very rural families to have education for their kids in reading, writing and arithmetic. Often, this was from the McGuffey Readers. There were primers to be used in grades 1 to 6 from about 1870 to 1950 to learn the alphabet and start reading. By the year 1920 around a hundred million of these first textbooks had been sold for a total American population of 106 million people. Love this Podcast? Check out our website at The Fresh Chile Company. Also, check us out on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube! Follow this link to get 15% off of your next order: Podcast15