Victorian Era Education
Victorian Era Education In the novel
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the protagonist Pip says, “I took the opportunity of being alone in the courtyard, to look at my coarse hands and my common boots,”(Dickens, 85)
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Born from a lower class, Pip had sense of lack inferiority regarding his social class and opportunities for education. Although schools have always been around it wasn’t until the Victorian era that education was 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
510 in Britain to attend school. Children from wealthy family was taught at home until the age of 10 and was sent to Public schools. The poor were initially introduced to school by the ‘Sunday school’ introduction of Robert Raikes with about 1,250,000 children gaining an education with this method by 1831(Victorian School). Girls on the other hand continued to be educated at home. In Victorian Era, both quality and quantity of education differed between classes, but it started to close up gaps gradually.
Education is what defines people. It sets apart the rich from the poor. Education causes a person to think of thing in a new way. It creates in a person a sense of self worth, and a determination to share their thoughts with the world. Upper class were the top 12% of the population, they were the nobles of the society. The ones with all the opportunities. Many of them looked down on the lower classes, because they viewed them as inferior.
The children of rich parents often either went to a private school or had private tutors that would come to their home and teach them. It would never be an option for a rich parent to send
their child to a public school, because they were for the common people. Sometimes the rich parents didn’t see it as necessary for their child to go to school, since they had enough money to live well off of.
Most upper class people
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the protagonist Pip says, “I took the opportunity of being alone in the courtyard, to look at my coarse hands and my common boots,”(Dickens, 85)
.
Born from a lower class, Pip had sense of lack inferiority regarding his social class and opportunities for education. Although schools have always been around it wasn’t until the Victorian era that education was 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
510 in Britain to attend school. Children from wealthy family was taught at home until the age of 10 and was sent to Public schools. The poor were initially introduced to school by the ‘Sunday school’ introduction of Robert Raikes with about 1,250,000 children gaining an education with this method by 1831(Victorian School). Girls on the other hand continued to be educated at home. In Victorian Era, both quality and quantity of education differed between classes, but it started to close up gaps gradually.
Education is what defines people. It sets apart the rich from the poor. Education causes a person to think of thing in a new way. It creates in a person a sense of self worth, and a determination to share their thoughts with the world. Upper class were the top 12% of the population, they were the nobles of the society. The ones with all the opportunities. Many of them looked down on the lower classes, because they viewed them as inferior.
The children of rich parents often either went to a private school or had private tutors that would come to their home and teach them. It would never be an option for a rich parent to send
their child to a public school, because they were for the common people. Sometimes the rich parents didn’t see it as necessary for their child to go to school, since they had enough money to live well off of.
Most upper class people