Comments on: pondering the reasons behind schools http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com/2007/05/26/pondering-the-reasons-behind-schools/ The life and times of Anni, Duke and Aprilia Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:29:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Administrator http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com/2007/05/26/pondering-the-reasons-behind-schools/#comment-440 Mon, 28 May 2007 23:19:27 +0100 http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com/2007/05/26/pondering-the-reasons-behind-schools/#comment-440 So glad it wasn't just me thinking that they had got the facts just slightly wrong then..... So glad it wasn’t just me thinking that they had got the facts just slightly wrong then…..

]]> by: Tim http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com/2007/05/26/pondering-the-reasons-behind-schools/#comment-430 Sun, 27 May 2007 12:28:39 +0100 http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com/2007/05/26/pondering-the-reasons-behind-schools/#comment-430 Well said. It seems to me that our school system has its roots firmly in the schools like the <a href="http://www.woodbridge.suffolk.sch.uk/history.html" rel="nofollow">one I attended</a> which was originally founded in 1577, <b>slightly</b> before the period you mention. Eton College was founded in 1440 by Henry VI as a charity school to provide free education to seventy poor students, Harrow School was founded in 1572 under a Royal Charter granted by Elizabeth I of England to John Lyon, a local yeoman, for the provision of education to local boys and you can go on and on. These schools, which were founded for philanthropic and charitable purposes were so good that the gentry started to use them to educate their children in place of private tutors. The ideas of universal education and healthcare grew out of the Labour movement in the 19th century which was hardly likely to want to sponsor and promote a system which wanted to produce mindlessly obedient serfs. Well said.

It seems to me that our school system has its roots firmly in the schools like the one I attended which was originally founded in 1577, slightly before the period you mention.

Eton College was founded in 1440 by Henry VI as a charity school to provide free education to seventy poor students, Harrow School was founded in 1572 under a Royal Charter granted by Elizabeth I of England to John Lyon, a local yeoman, for the provision of education to local boys and you can go on and on.

These schools, which were founded for philanthropic and charitable purposes were so good that the gentry started to use them to educate their children in place of private tutors.

The ideas of universal education and healthcare grew out of the Labour movement in the 19th century which was hardly likely to want to sponsor and promote a system which wanted to produce mindlessly obedient serfs.

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