Schools, Private Military
Schools, Private Military.The disciplined environment of West Point has provided one model for civilian schools established to educate intellectually and morally responsible citizens.
The earliest military‐style academies in the United States offered practical and technical curricula quite unlike the classical education of contemporary universities. At Norwich University, opened as the private American Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy in New England in 1819, cadets studied engineering, navigation, and agriculture, along with composition and Latin. The Virginia Military Institute (VMI), which opened at Lexington in November 1839, took West Point's engineering curriculum as its model. In 1843, The Citadel Academy at Charleston began a similar course of practical studies for indigent South Carolina boys.
Graduation from these military‐style schools did not lead automatically to army commissions, but during the
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