The Relationship Between Schooling and Literacy

Even if the parish or dame school did exist, in her in an area, people's priorities were still to have children helping out at home. And so they probably didn't get to attend the school very much at all. Another imponderable in all this was the impact and expectations of family. Of course, always one of the most important factors in educational attainment. So religious and political interests may well have been nurtured in certain families,. The ethos and culture of the family made a difference. There was a very strong nineteenth century tradition in the north of england towards the importance of literacy which led to comparatively high levels of literacy there. Just generally, literacy was high among certain classes