Education For All
At peak enrollment in 1947, veterans made up 49% of faculty admissions and by the point the original G.I. Bill ended in 1956, 7.8 million World War II veterans—nearly half of the sixteen million who served—had participated in education or coaching. Noah Webster steered and recorded the linguistic transition from British English to American English through his series of dictionaries. He spent decades compiling and defining sixty five,000 words while undoing the British aristocracy’s influence on spelling and pronunciation. When he was 70, Webster in 1828 revealed the “American Dictionary of the English Language,” the new classroom commonplace and one…Continue Reading
