History of schools and education in Highland

“Until the last quarter of the eighteenth century, there were no
schools in California other than the missions. With the expulsion
of the Jesuits from North America in 1767, the control of religious
education — there was no other worthy of the name — was given to
the Franciscans. Their first representative in Alta California was
Father Junipero Serra, who established a chain of nine missions,
which was later increased to over twenty. The system of education
which he established at his missions, if it could be called a system
at all, consisted entirely of oral instruction in the services of the
Church and in teaching the Indians to till the soil for the fathers
and to wait upon them.”

From EDUCATION IN CALIFORNIA DURING THE PRE-STATEHOOD PERIOD
BY J. ANDREW EWING
Historical Society of Southern California
Vol. XI: Part I: 1918
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http://www.archive.org/stream/annualpublicatio19181920hist/annualpublicatio19181920hist_djvu.txt  

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Highland Area Historical Society
RE: Schools
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Highland, CA 92346-0353
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1924 Cram School District Map  Use Ctrl + & - to zoom after opening