Observers noted that children were seldom encouraged to formulate judgments or relate what they learned to their own experience.An examination of the “Standards of Education” issued by the Education Department in 1872 indicates the level of achievement required. In this Act - The term "metropolis" means the places for the time being within the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board of Works under the Metropolis Management Act, 1855: . . The Education Act of 1870, drafted by William Edward Forster (1818-86), attempted a compromise between competing views of education, with “compromise” weighted toward the Church of England and religious instruction. The Elementary Education Act 1870, commonly known as Forster's Education Act, set the framework for schooling of all children between the ages of 5 and 12 in England and Wales. The state's As a direct response to this Education Act, the founding father of British popular journalism, In areas served by school boards that had implemented by-laws requiring attendance, compulsory attendance until 13 was exempted if a child over 10 had been certified by the inspector as satisfying the required standard for that board. After 1918, this became a county responsibility. even [the garden’s] lovely flowers failed to console me for a bitter disappointment. Board members were elected by the ratepayers under a system of The boards financed themselves by a precept (a requisition) added to either the local The boards could make grants to existing church schools, as had occurred since the 1830s, and erect their own board schools or All schools would be inspected by making use of the existing regime. Since “voluntary” schools could charge higher fees to the children of more prosperous workers, clerks, and others above the class of “respectable labouring men” (Hurt 12), inspectors found that they tended to fill the available places with students from such backgrounds, displacing most of the poorer children for whom the grants were originally intended. Phil Garner, a rare defender of these institutions, has argued that they were at least more informal, more tolerant of absenteeism, and less concerned to teach morals and “decorum” (for which read “subordination”). 1. That such ideals could be enunciated within the broad coalition of workers’ groups which he represented reflected one of the more durable effects of the Acts: the increased ability of working-class and reformist-minded Britons to comprehend the social factors that structured their lives and organize toward the goal of greater economic and cultural representation.Florence S. Boos is the general editor of the William Morris Archive and author/editor of several books on William Morris, most recently the forthcoming Boos, Florence S. “The Education Act of 1870: Before and After.” Boos, Florence S. “Education and Work: Women and the Education Acts.” “Standards of Education.” “Revised Code of Regulations.” “Elementary Education Act of 1870.” By 1800, most citizens of Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, and Finland could read, and the rates of literacy in the British middle- and upper-class education took place in private schools which—whatever their social atmosphere—provided much better instruction than that available to working-class children. Nineteenth-century England was relatively backward in providing its citizens with basic skills. 3, n. Teacher shortages continued and problems arose in areas where teachers who spoke no Local school boards made sure sufficient schools were built and that children attended them. 3, n.
Most important of all, perhaps, was the unwillingness to levy taxes for all but the most basic forms of instruction.Although it had become the world’s most industrialized nation, nineteenth-century England was relatively backward in providing its citizens with basic skills. The Act established the foundations of English elementary education although it was not taken up in all areas and would be more firmly enforced through later reforms. It established local education authorities with defined powers, authorized public money to improve existing schools, and tried to frame conditions attached to this aid so as to earn the goodwill of managers. . Standing among them weeping, I told my uncle that my sister was to start school the following week. Derek Gillard reports that between 1870 and 1885, the number of Church of England schools rose from 6,382 to 11,864, and Roman Catholic schools from 350 to 892 (Ch. "As a result of this view, the government passed the 1870 Education Act. Rural boards favoured economy and the release of children for agricultural labour. Their interest was not in books, but in life, and especially the life that lay immediately about them.