Topics covered;A community decided to build its first schoolAn old schoolhouse inside and outChores the students had to doTransportation to and from the schoolSchool suppliesA day at a one-room schoolLearning the alphabetLearning to read - samples from old readers, word gamesThe spelling crazeArithmetic puzzlersOther subjects, such as geography, agriculture, natural science, music and artThe first teachers - Ministers, itinerant teachers, educated womenStories about teachersRules for teachers, rules for studentsHiring women as teachersBeing late and being truantPunishmentMoral lessons taught in schoolBoarding schools, finishing schoolsRagged, industrial, trade, and domestic science schoolsChanging attitudes to education