Popular education in England started as a social welfare as well as an educational service. Robert Raikes, who opened the first Sunday School in 1780, and the two bodies of religious and philanthropic people who provided all the day schools until 1870, were inspired to act by two motives--one was shame at the existence in a great country like England of children and many adults who could not read or write, and the other was concern at the conditions which the industrial revolution had provided for the swarms of children who inhabited the new towns.
This approach to popular education was not the same in other countries. In Prussia, Switzerland, France and in the U. S. A. , the duty to see that future citizens were educated was recognized as that of the State, and public money was allotted to it much earlier than in England. Although the churches in some of these countries were associated with the State system--since religion was recognized to have an important share in the
A. the government
B. the churches
C. individuals
D. social welfare organizations
M: Are you from England
W: No, I’m from America.How about you
M: I live here in Paris.but I’m not French.I’m from Australia.
W: Are you a student
M: No.I’m a news reporter for a TV station.
W: Wow, that’s a good iob.
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