By Carl Lawrence-Turner,

John Dawton,Zain Rizvi.

Victorian Education

During the Victorian times Queen Victoria,Edward the 7th,

And George the 5th.The biggest achievement of the era was the conquest of India in

1750.

Introduction toVictorian times.

In the Victorian era only the wealthy could afford to send there children to public school. Most could not read or write. Trade

unions saw education as a way of releasing people from poverty. This meant that poor children had to go to ragged

schools.An education act was put in place in 1870, which provided that

there should be a school within reach of every child. Soon after hundreds of schools were built in British villages and inner city

neighbourhoods.Most education was aimed mainly at boys. However girls and

women began to benefit as well. The year 1872 saw the girl’s public day schools company. In fact Cambridge university

pioneered the fist two women’s colleges.

Education

Ragged and charity schools were schools for the very poor children who's parents could not afford to send them to an

upper class school.The purpose of education was so children could learn to read

and write in a basic manner, also boys were taught different subjects to girls. In the early stages of education boys had a better education than girls did because boys were seen as people who would work and girls were seen as people that would stay at home and look after the family. However as time went by girls and boys were equal and had the same

amount of education as boys.

Ragged Schools

There are a couple of novels of Dickens that relates to this topic.Such as:

- Oliver Twist.- Nicholas Nickleby.- A Christmas Carol.

Charles Dickens Novels

1. Being late for school, punished by…(a) Having your name put in a book so you would not get a job

when you were older.(b) Being hit over the with a cane.(c)Both.

2. Throwing ink pellets in the classroom, punished by…(a) A severe talking to by the teacher.(b) Kneeling on the floor with your hands behind you.(c) A treble helping of lumpy mashed potato at school dinner.

Punishment quiz

3. Missing Sunday church, punished by…

(a) A severe talking-to by the priest and detention.(b) A beating with the strap.(c) Doing extra work for the church- polishing the candlesticks

etc.

Punishment quiz continued

1. The punishment book (a)2. Kneeling down with your hands behind your head (b)

3. The strap (a beating) (b)

Answers to quiz

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