page_title: Gardiner Lyceum
section_title: Courses
hierarchical_section_title: Gardiner Lyceum / Courses
caption_attribution_description: English: Gardiner Lyceum school Laws and Regulations of 1825, page 1
context_page_description: The Gardiner Lyceum was the first vocational trade school in the United States. The purpose of the school was for giving young men the skills they needed to accomplish their chosen trade. It was a vocational school education for farmers, agriculturists, and other specialized trades of the nineteenth century. It provided the scientific and technical education needed for their vocation or to become schoolmasters.
context_section_description: The courses were designed for the realistic and useful applications of mathematics and science with emphasis on liberal and cultural subjects.  They were mainly designed to make scientific farmers and skillful craftsmen.  The main object of the courses of the  Gardiner Lyceum  was intended to be something between High School, preparatory agenda for entering into college, and a college or university education.  Gardiner Lyceum  was intended as a practical vocational school that prepared the students with an immediate trade (e.g. farming). The school was intended as a two-year agenda. The school was a lyceum, a secondary schooling that was more technical that High School and less scholarly than a college or university education. It was for trade training for immediate employment in the field of their choice.
  The courses of the school classes were in various fields of advanced mathematics, bookkeeping, surveying, mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, chemistry, natural philosophy, and natural history. There were also courses in navigation and carpentry.  The principal object of the lyceum was in establishing young men to be practical in running a farm profitable or do professionally whatever occupation they chose. The agricultural courses were designed to give future agriculturist the practical training of science upon which he could run a farm or be associated with farming in his trade. The school provided potential leads for employment in hopes of getting a return on its expenses in training the student.
caption: Laws of the Gardiner Lyceum and Regulations for its Government 1825
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