The average school-life was perhaps two years, perhaps eighteen months. The Society ...
The average school-life was perhaps two years, perhaps eighteen months.
The Society Schools, which represented the best practice of the tithe, were helped out by Sunday Schools which also gave a little instruction in reading and writing, sometimes in arithmetic, and by a mob of private ventures, of which the one kept by Mr Wopsie's great aunt and attended by Pip was, if anything, a favorable specimen. At Salford it was found that of 1880 children nominally at school, less than half were taught to read or write.
In Liverpool less than half the
child population under fifteen went to school at all, and the other half did not miss much.The fees were 25 pence for users, 50 pence for writers, £11 for counters.
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It was much if the victims could write their names. From the ...
It was much if the victims could write their names.
From the marriage registers it would appear that in the thirties about one-third of the men and two-thi
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Of what use were cheap papers to a population which could not read them? The passion for an educated people, which united all reformers an