Josiah Holbrook wrote a comprehensive plan for popularizing education. The title of the paper was "American Lyceum of Science and Arts". Holbrook lectured in Worchester County, Massachusetts beginning the American Lyceum movement.

Massachusetts passed a law requiring the establishment of high schools in cities, towns, and districts of 500 families or more.

The Oneida Institute of Science & Industry was established in Whitesboro, New York by George Washington Gale. The Oneida Institute used manual labor systems in the early days.

Note: Gale, George Washington, 1789-1861, American educator and clergyman, b. Stanford, N.Y., grad. Union College, 1814, and Princeton Theological Seminary, 1819. In 1827 he founded Oneida Institute at Whitesboro, N.Y., where students paid for their instruction by doing manual labor. He planned a college in the West to be similarly maintained, and he organized a land company that founded Galesburg, Ill. From the proceeds he established Knox Manual Labor College in 1837; the manual labor feature was later dropped and the institution became Knox College. Gale served as trustee and taught literature and moral philosophy there until his retirement in 1857.