Examine the different functions that the education system may perform for individuals
Examine the different functions that the education system may perform for individuals (20)
The education system has many different functions. In 1880 education was made compulsory for children up to the age of 10. The reasons for this were: To create a more skilled workforce, Britain was named the ‘the workshop of the world’ but other countries were catching up. Compulsory education was good for Britain because it was helping to keep us ahead of the other countries in technological and scientific advances. Another reason was to improve the effectiveness of our armies, During the Crimean war the amount of casualties was so high, and the reason was poor tactics and inexperience, this was going to be improved as of when education was made compulsory. Another reason was to re-socialize the ‘feckless’ and teaching them to change there lives from drinking too much and living immorally to leading a more responsible and more respectable life. Compulsory education was a plan to also help reduce the level of crime, by making young pickpockets’ go into schooling, cutting down therefore on petty crimes. The education system also performed well for middle class and upper class students because they were well nourished and lived in warm heated homes, their general health was better those students from a lower class background, this is important because without good attendance those lower class children miss out on all key education thus making the middle and upper class children performing better, getting better jobs after schooling and making their families continue to be wealthier. Education system was also put into place to provide equality amongst all children.
