“The function of high school, therefore, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to force children to finally accept the evaluation system as a measure of their inner excellence,” Jules Henry, an esteemed American anthropologist once said. He believed that the American school system was flawed and that it based its students' intelligence on the grades they received in class. Our school evaluation system today is one of the many problems plaguing our education system. The problems of today can be shown in different forms in the 1800s, a time when the education of American citizens was being formed. Even though our education system has changed dramatically since the 1800s, the education of our youth is still littered with problems comparable to those of the 1800s, from problems with teachers, students, and courses. Who was your least favorite teacher? Was it the subject matter that made you hate them, or the personality, or the fact that they always seemed to assign boring tasks? In the early 1800s, many frontier schools were run by a single male teacher, who became a teacher simply by passing his education and proving himself to be literate. After many men decided to move on to higher-paying jobs, women began to dominate the profession, and teachers were soon trained in the 1820s. Although most cities living in a more rural landscape found themselves with only one teacher per school, forcing older students to often help teach younger students. Although today there are higher levels of education for teachers and more than one teacher per school, teachers continue to struggle with problems of lack of funding or often support from the children's parents. If a teacher wants to do an activity outside of school education, he or she has to pay for it out of his or her own pocket… half the paper… classroom teaching activity is still a prevalent issue. Many today feel that courses should be taught only to help a student pass an exam or standardized test, not to learn. The goal no longer seems to be to give children the education that will help them forever, but to memorize which equations will appear on the SATs. Without a lack of universally respected goals, students often become discouraged and less motivated on the path to higher education. The education problems of the 1800s have shifted and changed over time, helping to lead to the modern education system and the many issues littering it. The problems are still teacher-based, student-based, and course-based. Despite its similarities, education has become something very different from its origins, creating more problems but blossoming into a system that offers more opportunities for the children of the United States..