Education isn’t what it used to be …
Well in some cases that might be a good thing. In 1799 children arriving for a new term at school could look forward to a new course of handwriting lessons, consisting of copying out worthy phrases from “The New Copy Book Written and Designed for Schools and Academies”. These might provide sensible advice for negotiating the adult world to come:
Others might reassure those pupils who feared they were neither beautiful nor loveable:
Or they could maintain order by instilling an early appreciation of social hierarchy:
And those diligent children who reached the last letter of the alphabet might be forgiven for feeling a wee bit confused:
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Posted by: Sarah
