Titel: Education in the 1840s
Skrivet av: Chris Bingefors skrivet 2009-06-19, 12:42
My grandmother born 1898 only went to school every second day for four years. They were not among the poorest, they had a fairly big farm. But she still had to help out on the farm. Girls often took care of chickens etc and boys watched the animals grazing free in the forests. They also had time off at harvest when everybody had to help in the work. Children not belonging to the family, such as Aron often had to earn their keep by working on the farm. She died young from TB and her mother saw to it that my mother got education and went to university as the first ever in the family. That was the road to success in those days. Aron seems to have been an intelligent and resourceful man so he probably worked hard at reading and writing, knowing that it was important for success. Others never really learnt to write very well, they never had to use it.