2. During nineteenth century children were fragile,
helpless, charming, and in need of special
protection.
Exploiting children for the sole benefit of adults,
had been a common practice and was
universally tolerated.
The children spent much of their time playing in
the street. Sometimes watching organ grinders,
acrobats and jugglers.
In Dickens’ times children were not obliged to go
to school, and most didn’t, but if the did,
the character of the education they
received depended very much on whether their
families were wealthy.
3. In elementary and high schools.
-He replaced the following studies:
* Brief notions of Agriculture, Industry and
Commerce.
* Principles of Geometry, Linear Drawing
and Surveying.
* General Notions of Physics and Natural
History.
-By:
* Work own sex.
* Elements of Drawing applied to the same
work.
* Light domestic notions of hygiene.
(WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?)
People felt that the role of women was as
homemaker and mother and wife.
The incorporation of women into industry sectors
did not provide any independence as women's
work in the labor sector is not an option but a
necessity.
