Did girls go to school in the middle colonies?

Answer 1

Girls did not commonly get much education in colonial times. White colonial children were sometimes educated by their parents or religious leaders, but that was very limited education. Some bigger towns had schoolhouses where the boys and girls got some basic schooling, but that was not common.

Education for both boys and girls was limited, but women's education had more limits. There just was not enough educational opportunities.

Answer 2

During the Middle Ages, some girls did go to school, but there were very few who did in Western Europe.

In the Byzantine Empire, there was a system for primary education that was founded in 425 and lasted until the empire fell. This system operated at the village level, and at least some girls were taught in it, according to what I have read. I do not know how common this was, and it might even have been general, but I have not seen any information on that.

Some important women of Western Europe were educated in convent schools or were privately tutored. Matilda of Scotland, who was the queen consort of King Henry I of England, was educated in a convent. Empress Matilda was tutored.

Héloïse d'Argenteuil was highly educated. We do not know how or why she was given her initial education, however.

Margery Kempe seems to have been educated enough to read, and though she considered herself unlettered, this was probably because she was not given advanced education. She was middle class, and was the first person to write an extant autobiography in English.

In about the year 1250, schools called abacus schools were opened so the children of middle class families could learn the new mathematics associated with Arabic numerals. These schools taught reading and writing in the vernacular languages and were open to girls. Since women had to be able to assume control of their husbands' businesses, most daughters of merchants of the time may have been educated.