Analysis Of The Educational Thought Of Sunday Schools In Britain During The Early Industrial Revolutio

In the early years of the Industrial Revolution,the Sunday School movement in England set off a powerful trend of charitable education.In the eyes of the conservative middle class and religious people who embraced it,Sunday school was the best solution to the depravity and stubborn inferior-root of the poor;a philanthropy that eradicated poverty,saved souls and spread the Gospel;also an ideological vaccine to resist the trend of French revolutionary thought and maintain traditional ideas and order.This paper discusses the relationship between the propaganda terms and rhetoric related to Sunday school and social charity and moral crisis in industrial towns,and analyzes the specific content and logical structure of its educational thought on this basis.In fact,from the founding of Sunday schools to the decades that followed,the logic of Sunday education had always contained a sense of hierarchy and contempt for the lower classes: their so-called "charity" was only to abolish the material relief of the old poor laws,to persuade the lower classes with the illusory promise of the afterlife,and to encourage them to set their teeth and laugh at their misfortune.The purpose and method of teaching that it pursued was not to improve the vision and wisdom of the lower class,but merely to make them support the existing class order and religious ethics,so as to resist the influence of revolutionary thoughts and enlightenment thoughts.