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lnside a Victorian school | Historian Ruth Goodman on lessons and discipline

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What were lessons like in a Victorian school? And who could attend? Subscribe here: https://bit.ly/subhistoryextrayoutube

Historian Ruth Goodman explores the Ragged school movement, the social mobility that schooling offered, and how the classroom was a different experience depending on whether you were a boy or a girl.

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00:00 Intro
00:36 Who could read and write?
04:29 How were Ragged Schools run?
06:08 Was school compulsory?
07:01 How were classes taught?
09:35 Did boys and girls learn together?
10:22 What about discipline?
11:07 How did literacy change lives?

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20 Comments

@SG-ve7zz 1 year ago

Ruth needs her own youtube channel!!

@missteeny1638 1 year ago

Teaching letters with sand is actually a great, economical way to do it.

@queerukuleleplayer 1 year ago (edited)

My great grandmother was a Pupil teacher, became a fully qualified teacher and lifted her family into the middle class. Because of her my father was able to get into Grammar School, University and become a teacher himself who chose to work with Children with disabilities, helped develop makaton and create a curriculum for special needs schools.

@JudahBenYisrael 1 year ago (edited)

When you see a video of, Ruth Goodman, you STOP, watch & listen. Absolutely love her videos.

@wumologia 1 year ago (edited)

As a granddaughter of the woman who would only attend school every other day, because her and the sister who was her closest in age only had one pair of shoes between them...the subject of Ragged Schools touches my very soul.

@angelicasmodel 1 year ago

This is fascinating. I'd always thought Victorian classrooms sounded like a nightmare. But there was a logistical reason they were like that. What an achievement to go from 50% to 100% literacy in a couple of generations, especially when you consider that a big indicator of your educational achievement these days is how educated your parents were.

@mrsstiffy3 1 year ago

Anything with Ruth Goodman is amazing. Her enthusiasm is heartwarming 💕

@mariejoyce5150 1 year ago

Ruth Goodman is probably the best social historian there is. Had she been teaching my history class when I was at school I’d have paid far more attention.

@terriehaylock9058 10 months ago

I got a fright when she pretended to be a strict school teacher bc Ruth is always so gentle and sweet 😂

@juliegale3863 1 year ago

In 1940 during WWII I was about 4nearly 5 and sent out of the bombing down to Devon. There I went to the local village school that looked just like the one in the video. I remember slates and chalk but we also had exercise books cut in half to save paper. We wrote in pencil so it could be rubbed out and the paper used again. The absolute last knockings of a Victorian school.

@trishayable 1 year ago

I can listen to Ruth talk all day.

@amandamorton-king2112 1 year ago (edited)

Love love love this woman. For goodness sake give her another series on main stream television so more people can learn in a fascinating way.

@zappababe8577 1 year ago

5:20 I love how those who were on the very bottom rung of society's ladder had learned the value of education in order to better their circumstances in life, and that is what motivated them to help others who were also on the very bottom rung of society's ladder. That strong impulse to help others came directly from the heart, and I greatly admire them for putting it into motion.

@paco7992 1 year ago

This beautiful spirit is a national treasure. She dances to her own drum, but a smart person would sit down and listen. She is your embassador of history and culture.

@jmarshal 1 year ago

Having older children help teach the younger ones could still be put to good use today, both giving a helping hand to kids who are struggling, but offering opportunities for development for older students who want to go into teaching or education.

@davidsanderson4442 1 year ago

Anything with Ruth Goodman presenting is guaranteed to be good!

@lalalaureanne 1 year ago

I‘m a teacher myself and I love Ruth Goodman. This is so fascinating! 400 kids in one room, my god.

@user-vf3zi6we3g 1 year ago (edited)

My mum was a pupil teacher here in NZ. She got a scholarship for a years high-school education and afterwards was asked to stay on to teach the infants. She wanted to go on and train as a teacher but her parents wouldn't let her. My grandmother got her a job as a house keeper and nanny for a doctors family. After 5 years she left to work in a factory. Very narrow and short sighted people. My mum always had regrets about it.