Pioneer School Experience

We recently packed up our lunch baskets, donned our pioneers duds, and traveled back in time to a school day in 1901 at the Harbor History Museum's Midway Schoolhouse. What a day!

We practiced our handwriting, practiced our sums, read from McGuffey's Readers and learned the "Five Finger" lesson of truthfulness, honesty, punctuality, cleanliness, and kindness.

Overall, though, we prefer school nowadays - though we noticed many of the subjects we learned about were the same, many of the Pioneers noted that there was no science taught in 1901. We especially did not like all having to do the same thing at the same speed - that felt "hard." The Pioneers feel like they get a better education today -- and, true to Seabury style, we definitely prefer learning at our own pace!