... ...ragged schools......Ragged Schools......Document: Registration form for the Hornbrook Ragged School, Prahran...Uneducated children, if ‘left uncared for, would inevitably grow up to be pests and outcasts of society’.
– 6th Annual Report of Hornbrook Ragged School Association.
In the 1860s, Melbourne’s officials noted a growing number of destitute and neglected children, unable to afford an education. Common and National schools charged a fee too high for Melbourne’s poorest. ......Pupils attending the Cremorne Street Ragged School, c. 1900. ...
The exhibition, School Days, developed by Public Record Office Victoria and launched at Old Treasury Building in March 2015, is a history of more than 150 years of schooling in Victoria.
It is a history of the 1872 Education Act - the most significant education reform in Victoria, and a world first! It is a history of early schooling, migrant schooling, Aboriginal schools, women in education, rural education and, of course, education during war time (1914-1918).
This online exhibition is based on the physical exhibition School Days originally displayed at Old Treasury Building, 20 Spring Street, Melbourne, www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au and curated by Kate Luciano in collaboration with Public Record Office Victoria.
