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Nov. 19th, 2011 07:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithThis one is more of a memory prompt. It comes from a letter by John Robertson(?), the Presbyterian minister for Bothwell, a small town in the Central Highlands. Writing in 1851, he describes Bothwell as
a small & poor township of 300 people all engaged in trade, handcrafts, or as labourers, & in which nearly nine tenths of the adult population are, or have been convicts
Probably not something they'll put on their tourist brochures :)
John was writing about his Sunday school and the problems of getting children to attend. I wanted to write a note to myself to remember Sunday schools were real schools for teaching reading and writing, for any children who felt a need to attend or whose parents felt a need for them to attend, and not limited to those who shared the same religious persuasion as the church providing the school. While complaining about attendance in general, John did note that parents from a particular class did feel more inclined to push their children to attend -- they wanted their children to share the benefits of an education that they'd never had themselves.
a small & poor township of 300 people all engaged in trade, handcrafts, or as labourers, & in which nearly nine tenths of the adult population are, or have been convicts
Probably not something they'll put on their tourist brochures :)
John was writing about his Sunday school and the problems of getting children to attend. I wanted to write a note to myself to remember Sunday schools were real schools for teaching reading and writing, for any children who felt a need to attend or whose parents felt a need for them to attend, and not limited to those who shared the same religious persuasion as the church providing the school. While complaining about attendance in general, John did note that parents from a particular class did feel more inclined to push their children to attend -- they wanted their children to share the benefits of an education that they'd never had themselves.
