What Is 1837 Education?

Childhood : was hard for some kids, because they had to work all the time and the kids that could afford schools went. And sometimes they got payed 3 shillings a week,and sometimes they didn't get payed at all.
And that was a big affect on the families and the kids,because the parents need to keep food on the tables and they half to work themselves and they can't do all of those things.

Education : Although there had been schools dated back as far as the 6th Century many Victorian boys and girls did not have the opportunity of going to school. When Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837 education wa still mainly for the privileged. Rich children might have a governess to teach them at home until they were old enough - if they were boys-to
Rich children might have a governess to teach them at home until they were old enough-if they were boys- to go to Public Schools such as Rugby [mentioned in the book, tom brown’s Schooldays].
The girls continued to be educated at home. Most poor children did not go to day school,but earlier, Robert Raikes had started a system of education based in churches, the Sunday School, and by 1831 1,250,000 children went to lessons in this way. That was about a quarter of the population at the time.
Later in the Queen Victoria’s reign a number of day schools had begun, including the British Schools, and the Ragged Schools [so called because of the tattered clothes worn by poor pupils]. In 1870 a law was passed saying that children aged between 5 and 10 had to attend weekday school.THe leaving age was raised 11 in 1893. Even so,many children were kept away from school by parents and employers who would rather have them earning
Most schools also included the 4th R, Religion. To begin with, most reading was taught using the Bible, but it soon became evident that this was too difficult and so primers were introduced which had moralistic stories. Pupils would take turns to read a portion of the story. Object lessons were used, particularly for younger children, object lessons were used, the teacher would show a picture of an object and the child would call out the name. Next the children might learn arithmetic. This started by learning tables, but would later include sums that were copied down and worked out. For more complicated sums and abacus [or counting frame] helped with the answer. Weights and measures were all recorded in imperial measurements: this included pounds and ounces for weight and yards and furlongs for distance. Money was also added up differently. In those days there were 240 pennies in a pound, not 100 as there are today. There were coins such as the halfpenny, the farthing, and the crown. We have already mentioned writing, and it was considered very important to develop a fine hand, so a lot of time was spent practising copywriting. Another regular activity was a drill, which was the Explain why the women by the fire with her family in Stave 3 refused to take herself and her children to the workhouses. She said she would rather they all drown in the river than go there. Use information from the