School

divided along financial lines
rich: first governess
boys later: boarding school
girls later: learning sewing, singing etc.
middle class:Victorian schools (if affordable, otherwise charity schools
poor: begging from the age of five
Campaigners like Charles Dickens fought against it (Oliver Twist)
→ 1870: education mandatory for children from 5 to 12 years
before 1850: often 1 teacher for 100 pupils
Bible: textbook to learn how to read
later: moral tales because the bible was to difficult
discipline highly enforced
corporal punishment