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Education
During the
Victorian period in Great Britain primary education became available to working
class children and the secondary education of the wealthy developed into the
English private school system that exists today.
January 27, 1851 This is your brother, Madavious Lord of Wales. England needs our help. There are too many Dame schools that are wasting England’s time and money. Schools should be smaller and cheaper. These rooms have to stay in one place though. We can make them portable. I have heard of a man named Robert Ault who has built a structure he calls a portable schoolroom. It is a wooden room 24ft. long, 16ft. wide, and 8ft. high and it can fit 100 children. If you help me hire this man and fund his schoolrooms we can get these good for nothing annoying children off the streets and into these tiny, wooden rooms so they don’t take up space. We can put all the ragged [1]into portable schoolrooms and the rich, noble ones in public schools where they will get a good education. If we do fund this man’s portable schoolrooms we will have to find out a way to keep the children quiet and attentive. “Children should be seen not heard.” [2] I’ve created a system called the monitorial system where about four students would be picked to look around the room and make sure the children are working. The best part about this is that the teacher is free and another student has to be in charge. Now, to my last
point, some of the teachers in public schools are complaining they don’t get
paid enough. As a result Parliament has created something they call
“payment by results.”[3]
This sort of explains itself. We have made 6 different standards for elementary
students. The more standards a student passes the higher education rate the
student ascends and best of all, the teacher gets paid more for the more
students that pass. We have just taken poll from last year and we found out, out
of the 5 million mischievous, good for nothing children in England 600,000
are at work and 2 million are in schools.[4]
And if we raise the price of schools, maybe some of those extra 3 million extra
children will have to work in the factories and produce more income for England. Sincerely, Madavious
George, a lord Source:
[1]Ragged
means poor and usually meant that a person went to a ragged school.
“Ragged schools” were schools that were funded by charities and staffed
by both paid teachers and middle-class volunteers. They offered free meals
and clothing. [2] This quote was by Adam Smith [3]
1862 Parliament established “payment by results” [4]
Out of the 5 million children in Europe, 2 million were in schools and
600,000 were working.
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