https://padlet.com/mirianadicicco1/jl836j5tb5ay en-us 2017-10-28 09:17:00 UTC 2025-01-10 17:34:56 UTC hello@padlet.com mirianadicicco1 https://padlet.com/mirianadicicco1/jl836j5tb5ay/wish/201394176 During the first part of the Victorian Age, only the nobles's children could attend private schools receive an education. Boys were sent to famous schools like Eton, while girls were educated at home by their parents or by governesses and they learnt how to become mothers, how to play a musical instrument or drawing. The industrial revolution made England the most important nation in the world, so the population moved from the country to the towns. Children helped their families working sixteen hours a day, so only a few children received an education. The fortunates went to dame schools, charitable institutions run by women in their homes. Children read, wrote and studied simple arithmetic moreover sunday schools, where they study the Bible. At the beginning schools were supported by private organizations or run by parochial autorities. In 1870 thanks to the elementary education acts schooling for children became obligatory from five to twelve, but poor families didn't let their children go because they needed the money that children earned when they worked. After 1891 all the children could attend schools for free. In a class there were 70-80 pupils and teachers were very strict. The most important lessons were about the three R's: Reading, wRiting and aRithmetic. Children condition within education system were described in "Hard Times", a novel by C. Dickens]]> 2017-10-28 09:20:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mirianadicicco1/jl836j5tb5ay/wish/201394176 mirianadicicco1 https://padlet.com/mirianadicicco1/jl836j5tb5ay/wish/201394494 2017-10-28 09:26:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mirianadicicco1/jl836j5tb5ay/wish/201394494 mirianadicicco1 https://padlet.com/mirianadicicco1/jl836j5tb5ay/wish/201394623 2017-10-28 09:28:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mirianadicicco1/jl836j5tb5ay/wish/201394623