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Hoon Ho Chung 10D English

** Victorian Education **

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Examine the British educational system. You will need to distinguish between education for the wealthy and education for the poorer classes. How did social class affect an individual’s education and upbringing? What were the differences in education between men and women? =====

**Summary**

The change that occurred in the Victorian Period brought modification of education, too. In modern day, education is one of the most important factors that people care about. However, in the Victorian Period, there were too many poor civilians who were not able to afford their children with education. Therefore, majority of the children supported their family by working at factories, which lead them to get less opportunity to learn. Nevertheless, the children from the rich family were able to get all the education they wanted. It was not only that education differed between classes, it differed between sexes, too (Victorian England: An Introduction). The women learned subjects such as dancing, singing, and cooking; on the other hand, men studied science, mathematics, and laws. Consequently, education during Victorian Period was not equal for the women and the poorer classes.

During this period, the rich children had more time to study than the poorer classes; however, the penniless kids still had the opportunity to learn from teachers. Due to the 1834 Act, the Poor Law Unions were mandatory to have three hours of school each day (Workhouse - the Story of Workhouses). Also, they learned about religion, domestic, and agricultural skills. The rich children did not go to school instead they were home-schooled by professional tutors. Then the affluent children attended to Eton, Rugby, and Charterhouse (Victorian England: An Introduction). These were one of the top schools in United Kingdom. Moreover, the high class students studied subjects such as arithmetic, science, literature, and law. Therefore, the poor classes were incapable to get the same education as the affluent classes. When the poor and rich students both apply to certain college, the poor students were disadvantageous because they did not have enough knowledge to go into colleges since they had to work in factories everyday.

There is also discrimination between men and women in education. In Victorian Period, usually men learned about geography, history, arithmetic, grammar, and reading. Thus, they learned the subjects that most of the students learn today. On the other hand, women learned how to make bed, cook, sing, draw, and knit. Women were not allowed to get the same education as men. While men and women were in the school, they both had completely different schedule. The difference in education between men and women lead women to be in difficult situation to go to good colleges such as Oxford or Cambridge (Victorian England: An Introduction). Men had higher chance of going to better colleges. Thus, men and women had different roles in Victorian Period.

The social class and difference in sex really influenced individuals in education. The person who is lower class or women had disadvantages in going to schools. Due to the fact that most people are not rich, they were not able to succeed as the rich students do. This lead the poor students to become a factory workers in the future (Workhouse - the Story of Workhouses). Therefore, in Victorian Period, social class and sex were important for the type of education he or she was going to get.

//Victorian England: An Introduction//. Department of England, UW Oshkosh. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Feb. 2010.
 * Works Cited:**

//Workhouse - the Story of Workhouses//. Personal Pages Index. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Feb. 2010.

**Visuals**



This picture shows how many students were studying in one classroom. Also, the picture shows only girls who are studying the class. This demonstrates that the men and women had different kind of education. The women learned different things from men.

This the material that was used to take notes about the class. They did not have notebooks as we have today. We can see this as the notebooks that we use today.

This picture is taken recently and it shows the uniqueness of the desks. In Victorian Era, they had very different education from the modern day.

Barrow, Mandy. //Victorian Schools.// n.d. Woodlands Junior School//. Tonbridge, Kent UK//. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Feb. 2010.
 * Work Cited:**

Costello, Mrs. K. //Victorian Schools.// n.d. Nettleworth Primary School. Nettleworth, United Kingdom. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Feb. 2010.

**For Further Research** http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/VictorianEngland.htm This site is very reliable to use for research. Due to the fact that it has sponsorship as .htm instead of .com or .gov. Therefore, the cite is not bias to religious view or political view. Also, it has .edu in the URL, this represents that the site is only used for education purposes, which makes it more reliable because I am only using the site for my education. Also, the sponsor of the site is described very thoroughly in the home page. The sponsor of the site tells a lot about themselves. The main goal for the site is to inform the readers. From the site most of things are just information about the Victorian Era education. The site is, also, very relevant to my topic because it gives the overview of what Victorian Era was and tells about education as subcategory. I believe that the audience for the site are mostly students who are wanting to gather information about Victorian Era. Therefore, this site is very reliable for students to use for their research.

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/index.htm The sponsor of this site is very reliable because their goal is to focus on the historical resources. Therefore, the sponsor of the site does not give very bias information to the readers. When the author explains about the poor and rich. He or she tells about the both perspectives and describes the difficulties they both have. Therefore, the site is not bias. Also, this site was not created for commercial purposes or governmental purpose. It was just created United Kingdom, so there is not a big chance that the information is incorrect. Most importantly, the home page of the site tells a lot about them and explains what is their purpose with the site. The audience for the site are mostly students because it is so informative. The students who are researching about the Victorian Era are probably the audiences for the site. Overall the site seems very reliable to use.