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This 6 page paper discuses education policies in the United Kingdom before and after World War II and comments on how policies prior to the war established the foundation for policies after the war. The writer begins with an overview of the general attitude toward education in the 19th century and discusses official commissions established to investigate education. The Forster Education Act of 1870 is discussed. The first major education act after the war was the Butler Education Act in 1945, which addressed secondary education. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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population in the United Kingdom were working class, which meant they worked very long hours, for little pay, in bad working environments and they were poorly educated (University of Derby,
2002). Education was not an issue addressed by politicians or very many other people, for that matter. The attitude toward education in the UK during the 19th century can best
be described as a laissez-faire attitude (The British Council, 2002). Government did not want to dedicate any money towards educating the children, believing this was best left to the churches
and to private institutions (The British Council, 2002). Parents paid for the education of their own children. One might think that the greater majority of the population would have been
illiterate but that was not the case. The literature market was growing rapidly, especially through Penny magazines and serialized fiction (West, 2002). The hard evidence came from a survey in
1939 that revealed that more than 92 percent of the Hull population could read; another survey in mining districts revealed that at least 80 percent of the people could
read and more than half of these people could also write (West, 2002). At least one authority has reported that in the late 1830s, more than two-thirds of the working
class population was literate (West, 2002). In an attempt to address the education issue and in an effort to create a literate and numerate work force, the Forster Education Act
was passed by Parliament in 1870 (University of Derby, 2002). The Forster Education Act established a free national compulsory education system for children beginning at age 5 and continued until
age 12 (University of Derby, 2002). At the time, the beginning age for schooling was the youngest age of any European country (University of Derby, 2002). All children, regardless of
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