"Show how the provision of education before 1833 depended upon personal wealth."

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10TH February 2003                           Rachel Glendenning 10A

Education for all.

“Show how the provision of education before 1833 depended upon personal wealth.”

    Education before 1833 did depend upon personal wealth along with other factors, (fully explained later on.) Different classes of people attended different types of schools, and the costs that the schools charged would have a great impact on the types of people attending them.        

    A governess would look after the wealthy children, and the boy’s governess would be replaced by a tutor, until they were old enough to attend school. This tutor would teach Greek and Latin. But in order for the boys to be taught mathematics, and French a ‘visiting master’ must be hired. The girls, on the other hand, were taught ‘accomplishments,’ which included music, drawing and dancing. The women’s role was to be elegant and to entertain as a wife, not to be educated and working outside of the home.  This was where the education stopped for the females; though, the upper class young boys went on to attend a public school, such as the ones at Eton, Harrow and Winchester, which taught classics, such as Latin and Greek, classical History and sport. Though these schools were well known for bullying, including fagging, strict corporal punishments and really bad teaching.  These types of schools were very inefficient, and many parents knew these schools taught mainly ‘manly habits,’ such as fighting and bullying.    

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    There was a range of schools for middle class children depending on the wealth of their families. Upper middle class children (still of wealthy parentage) would attend a private school; these were for mainly boys though some girls did attend these types of schools. The boys would be taught Classics and Maths, and the girls would be taught manners, singing, dancing, painting and embroidery. These were usually boarding schools, though the same types of subjects were taught, these would have been the cheaper of the two schools.

    Another middle class school was the grammar schools, ...

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