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In this manner, who invented public school?

On April 23, 1635, the first public school in what would become the United States was established in Boston, Massachusetts. Known as the Boston Latin School, this boys-only public secondary school was led by schoolmaster Philemon Pormont, a Puritan settler. The Boston Latin School was strictly for college preparation.

Likewise, when was the first public school created? 1635

Likewise, what was the original purpose of public education?

Fundamentally, the purpose of state education was to take children from parents judged incompetent and prevent those children from becoming dangerous, antisocial elements. The politically powerful arrogated to themselves the right to determine which parents were unfit to rear their own children.

How did teaching start?

The first formal teacher preparation began in the 1820s with the establishment of "normal schools" in Vermont and Massachusetts. The establishment of normal schools became a movement later in the nineteenth century; almost every state had at least one of them.