Study On England Sunday School During The Industrial Revolution

The Sunday School was born in the late 18th century and reached its peak in the middle of 19th century.The Sunday School grew up under the background of the England Industrial Revolution,and it was inextricably linked to the Industrial Revolution because it cultivated a large number of literate working-class.With the completion of the England Revolution and the promulgation of the Elementary Law enacted in 1870,the large-scale development of the Sunday School has come to an end.Although today's Sunday School still exists as a place of religious entertainment institution,its role has not been as profound as the industrial revolution.The Sunday School is an educational institution that promoted knowledge and cultivated morality on Sunday during the Industrial Revolution.This school was originally funded by social philanthropists or sects.Later,the working-class joined the school team and gradually became a mainstream group.Sunday School mainly recruits poor children,especially child laborers and working-class children,whose teaching includes religious education and basic secular education.Sunday School has strong spontaneity and autonomy in terms of teaching content and management.Therefore,its impact is multifaceted.For the working-class,Sunday School is the main place for education.It has trained a large number of cultured and disciplined workers to adapt to the development of the modern factory system.For the middle class,the Sunday School is the way to instill its ideas,and the middle class uses the Sunday School to pass on the values of this class to educated workers.So we cannot simply attribute the Sunday School to the belongings of a certain class.It was one of the important primary education institutions in the England during the Industrial Revolution,and its contribution to the education of a group of workers made it more meaningful in the entire industrial revolution in the England.