An American Memory: The One-Room Schoolhouse

The little red schoolhouse makes a comeback as parents today strive for the values that enveloped these early institutions.
An American Memory: The One-Room Schoolhouse
A one-room schoolhouse in Breathitt County, Ky., 1940. Public Domain
Jeff Minick
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Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Henry Ford, and my favorite college professor Ed Burrows all had one thing in common. Each attended a one-room schoolhouse.

And so did millions of other Americans.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.