New Thinking: Language, the Victorians and Us
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The Implications of Education Reform
The big education reform act was the 1870 Education Act, but really this was kind of a response to a discussion that had been happening for a very long time or through the Victorian period. That was, you know, perhaps in response even to issues like the French Revolution where we saw the rise of mass literacy being blamed for revolutionary acts. Throughout the entire 19th century, we had this discourse about The peer are going to learn to be educated so we perhaps need to control how this happens,.
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