The School System in the Victorian Period

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The school system in the Victorian period
School systems throughout the Victorian time period changed, making learning a requirement for everyone, not just the rich families, or the boys. Education was less advanced; they didn’t have a stable school system. The schools didn’t have the technology we have today.
The Victorian school systems are different from the current system. The main people to attend school then were the boys. Most poor children did not go to day school, and by 1831, 1,250,000 children went to lessons at the day school. (“Education”) “Children were taught from a very early age, that the most important things in life were duty and religion; and it was generally felt by all thoughtful people that to spoil a child unduly, or withhold punishment when it was needed, was not only weak-minded but definitely wrong.” (Quennell 142) Sally Mitchell says, “The first early school systems only took place on Sundays from 9:00A.M. To 12:30P.M., then it would resume at 2:00P.M. To 4:30P.M. (175). These Sunday schools were often called “Ragged schools”, because the children would come dressed in tatters. Boys were taught how to read, write, and arithmetic’s. Teachers at these schools would mainly use the Bible to teach the kids how to read. (“Education”) Some schools were free, while others were highly priced, and only affordable by the rich. Quennell says “Boys usually went to day-or-boarding schools as soon as they were old enough for serious lessons, or went to some country rector who took a few pupils in his own home. School life was then considerably harder than it was today.” (144). although most of the Victorian schools children life was rather dull, the bright light was playtime. Children would play with a variety of to...

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...ion, not because they were forced. College and mandatory show up also helped with their education. Victorian the more advanced the school got, the better education kids had. If these changes never occurred, would school be the way it is today?

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“Going to school in Victorian Times.” www.victorianschool.co.uk/schoolday.html. The
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Mitchell, Sally. Daily Life in Victorian England. Connecticut: London. Greenwood Press, 2009.
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Quennell, Marjone. S history of Everyday things In England: Volume IV. London: Norwich, 1958. Print.

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