A Christmas Carol, 1843 – Education Today
In 1843 Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol which speaks to an identical issue we face today.
“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want (Poverty). Beware them both… but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”
- The Spirit of Christmas Present speaking to Scrooge
Lack of education and poverty. Doom for an entire society and the wealthy who control it.
In the introductory notes by Katherine Kroeber Wiley in the Barnes & Noble Classics 2004 edition, she explains the facade of education for poor children offered in 1843.
“Like the treadmill and the Poor Laws, they really were
“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want (Poverty). Beware them both… but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”
- The Spirit of Christmas Present speaking to Scrooge
Lack of education and poverty. Doom for an entire society and the wealthy who control it.
In the introductory notes by Katherine Kroeber Wiley in the Barnes & Noble Classics 2004 edition, she explains the facade of education for poor children offered in 1843.
“Like the treadmill and the Poor Laws, they really were