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A vocal school, blab school, ABC school or old-time school was a type of children's primary school in some remote, rural places in North America in the 19th century, which became increasingly outdated and obsolete as the century progressed. The school children recited ("blabbed") their lessons out loud separately or in chorus with others as a method of learning.
Blab is a shortened form of the word "blabber", meaning to talk much without making sense. Middle English had the noun blabbe, "one who does not control their tongue".
It has also been claimed that the origin of the term "blab school" is the garbled "blab-blab" sound of the student's loud recitations as heard by neighbors of the schools.
Children in blab schools repeated their teacher's oral lesson at the top of their voices. The school children vocalized their lesson in "Chinese fashion" as harmonized voices in unison. In more elegant terms, blab schools were sometimes called vocal schools.
Blab schools were widespread in frontier days of the American West, since many settlers could not read. These one-room schools were called "old field" schools and were housed in log cabins, often having only dirt floors. The students sat on wooden, backless benches. This type of school was known as an "Old-time School" in the Appalachian region of Virginia in the 19th century.
Blab schools typically were not equipped with many books or paper. The schooling consisted of a teacher, with perhaps one or two books, speaking a short oral lesson and the schoolchildren reciting it back in a loud voice several times until memorized. The only requirement to become a teacher was basic literacy.
Reciting lessons was a form of entertainment in frontier communities, as well as a means of learning. Paper was scarce and expensive, so memorizing was the preferred method of study. The subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic were the basic curriculum of these 19th-century schools. Students who excelled in their studies were known as "leather-heads" and were awarded with praise from the teacher.
In many of the "ABC schools," each pupil was required to recite, first thing in the morning of each school day, the lesson they had learned in their homework assignment of the previous evening. The most ambitious "leather-heads" tried to reach the schoolhouse by sunrise, as the order of recitation was "first come, first called" and those who recited first had the best chance of winning the teacher's approval while he or she was still in a good mood.
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Vocal school
A vocal school, blab school, ABC school or old-time school was a type of children's primary school in some remote, rural places in North America in the 19th century, which became increasingly outdated and obsolete as the century progressed. The school children recited ("blabbed") their lessons out loud separately or in chorus with others as a method of learning.
Blab is a shortened form of the word "blabber", meaning to talk much without making sense. Middle English had the noun blabbe, "one who does not control their tongue".
It has also been claimed that the origin of the term "blab school" is the garbled "blab-blab" sound of the student's loud recitations as heard by neighbors of the schools.
Children in blab schools repeated their teacher's oral lesson at the top of their voices. The school children vocalized their lesson in "Chinese fashion" as harmonized voices in unison. In more elegant terms, blab schools were sometimes called vocal schools.
Blab schools were widespread in frontier days of the American West, since many settlers could not read. These one-room schools were called "old field" schools and were housed in log cabins, often having only dirt floors. The students sat on wooden, backless benches. This type of school was known as an "Old-time School" in the Appalachian region of Virginia in the 19th century.
Blab schools typically were not equipped with many books or paper. The schooling consisted of a teacher, with perhaps one or two books, speaking a short oral lesson and the schoolchildren reciting it back in a loud voice several times until memorized. The only requirement to become a teacher was basic literacy.
Reciting lessons was a form of entertainment in frontier communities, as well as a means of learning. Paper was scarce and expensive, so memorizing was the preferred method of study. The subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic were the basic curriculum of these 19th-century schools. Students who excelled in their studies were known as "leather-heads" and were awarded with praise from the teacher.
In many of the "ABC schools," each pupil was required to recite, first thing in the morning of each school day, the lesson they had learned in their homework assignment of the previous evening. The most ambitious "leather-heads" tried to reach the schoolhouse by sunrise, as the order of recitation was "first come, first called" and those who recited first had the best chance of winning the teacher's approval while he or she was still in a good mood.
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