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Although schools have always been around it wasn’t until the Victorian era that these were improved considerably and available for all children rich and poor. In 1870 a law was passed which made it mandatory for all children aged between 5-10 in Britain to attend school.
‘Ragged’ schools were charitable organisations that aimed to provide free education to poor and destitute children in 19th-century Britain. This letter outlines some of the general social problems faced by poor children of the era, and calls for greater support of the Ragged Schools Union – as the movement had by then become known.
In 1870, the Forster Elementary Education Act established partially state-funded Board Schools to be set up to provide primary education in areas where existing provisions were inadequate, but they still charged a fee, which many poor families could not pay.
Opinions varied and changed during the Victorian era so the education of pauper children might be different in various parts of the country. Under the 1834 Poor Law Act, Unions were expected to...
Popular Education (London, 1868) is a key document for understanding the denominational system in its heyday of the 186os. Kay-Shuttleworth was Secretary of the Committee of Council on Education (the forerunner of the later Ministry of Education) and as a top civil servant was influential in determining educational policy.
15 Νοε 2012 · Until 1891, schooling was not free and men like Thomas Barnardo set up 'Ragged Schools' that helped some poor children.
24 Φεβ 2017 · It is a commonplace that the history of education is part of the general social and intellectual history of a period. Yet when we come to recommend to our students good educational histories which embody this precept we find a remarkable dearth of suitable works.
