Chapter 6 discusses the perception of teachers in american society.  Women were predominantly the teachers from the beginning.  The teaching profession was seen as their predisposed role.  Over time as women began to assume more and more responsibilities, they become more well educated and this led to the rise of the teaching profession.  women in the classroom were supposed to promote moral values and become role models for their students.  The Pestalozzi method explained why women were effevtive teachers.  it says that women offered their students a certain motherly affection that made the classroom a more enjoyable place and encouraged learning.  But this view of teachers changed as time went on.  Teachers were then given a more strict curriculum to follow and were limited to what they were able to teach their students.

Over time al well, teachers began to lose their connection with their students, and their parents as well.  This led to a commonizing of the teaching profession.  Teachers were no longer looked upon as role models but were just seen as a means of an everyday process.  Teachers then began to care less about teaching the students and started to just stick to what was given to them.  The personal and home feel of school was lost between the teachers and the students.  Can this home comfortable feeling be reestablished in the classroom, and if so what actions will have to be taken and will it be effective?

Because teachers were greatly respected in the community,  men started to become teachers.  With this sudden increase in male teachers, there were also more male principles.  Also women were left mainly to teach the younger grades and children and the men were given the older more mature students.  Men were viewed as better business men and could run any system better then a women which led to this issue.  This pedogogical harem was becoming more and more upsetting to women.  But why is it that even a profession that was predisposed for women, was taken over by men?