![]() ![]() There’s also interesting information on early schooling systems and adult education institutes (e.g. ![]() This 500-page whopper primarily charts the rise and fall of the great working class autodidact tradition – what the British working classes did to educate themselves in the absence of a state-sponsored education system before the 1870 Education Act (eg Mutual Improvement Associations and Miners’ Libraries), what sort of books they were reading, what they hoped to get out of such learning and what they actually achieved, and the (predictably resentful) view of their fellow citizens, both working and middle class, to aspirational individuals. ![]() You may think this is the most pretentiously-titled book that I own but I’ve got plenty more where this bad boy came from. ![]()
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