in one famous 1846 speech katherine beecher, the leading female proponent called male teachers, quote, incompetent, intemp rent, coarse, hard, unfeeling, too lazy and stupid to be entrusted with kids' education. i'm sorry for the male teachers in the room. now this panic about male teachers combined with the sort of unwillingness to have an expensive education system really worked. and by 1900, so we're fast forwarding here, 90% of american teachers in northern cities like chicago or new york were female. 1900 was a difficult time for american public education. there were huge numbers of immigrant flooding into our classrooms which meant class sizes in some cases up to 60 kids and there were not enough desks and chairs. and there was a huge need for teachers at this time that girls were graduated the 6th or 7th grade and entering the classroom as teachers. they were hugely underprepared. now, there's a lot of places we might go with a system like that, perhaps better teacher prep, higher standards, smaller class sizes. but actually it was thought among intel leg churls at the time tha

in one famous 1846 speech, katherine beecher, the leading fee mill proponent hst common schools movementnd harriet beecher stow's sister called male teachers, quote, incompetent, intemp rant, coarse, hard, unfeeling, too lazy and stupid to be entrusted with kids education. i'm sorry for the male teachers in the room. now this panic about male teachers combined with the sort of unwillingness to have an expensive education system really worked. and by 1900, so we're fast forwarding here, 90% of american teachers in northern cities like chicago or new york were female. 1900 was a difficult time for american public education. there were huge numbers of immigrants from eastern and southern europe flooding into our classrooms which meant class sizes in some cases of up to 60 kids, and there were not enough desks or chairs so kids were sitting on the floor in chicago classrooms. and there was a huge need for teachers at this time that girls were graduating the sixth or seventh grade and entering the classroom as teachers. so they were hugely underprepared. now, there's a lot of places we might