The document discusses changes in culture and education during the Romantic and Realism periods. For culture, it describes how Romanticism emphasized emotion over reason and often depicted peaceful rural scenes, while Realism showed life as it really was, sometimes pessimistically. It names Beethoven, Dickens, and Tolstoy as influential figures. Regarding education, it outlines reforms in Britain, Germany, and France, such as establishing public schools, requiring attendance, and developing high-quality systems accessible to all children.

1. Changes in Culture and
Education

2. Glue in Changes in
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3. Culture
• Romanticism
– Emphasized emotion rather than reason
– Are often peaceful scenes of rural life or
landscapes
– Ludwig van Beethoven is best known composer of
this age

8. • Realism
– Emphasizing what life is really like
– Often showed life as pessimistic and hopeless
– Charles Dickens wrote about the negative aspects
of the Industrial Revolution
– Leo Tolstoy wrote War and Peace.

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13. Education
• In Britain:
– Sunday School began as an effort to teach poor
children how to read
– Parliament voted to spend money to build public
schools for poor children
– Required children to attend between ages 5-10
– Later it was 5-14, and then part time until 18

14. • Germany
– First to provide primary education that was
required for all children
– Developed one of the finest systems of education
in Europe

15. • France
– Jules Ferry formed the school system that
required all children to attend school until the age
of 15
– This system has continued with little change