Ragged schools is a name given to the 19th century charity schools in the United Kingdom which provided education and, in most cases, food, clothing, and lodging for destitute children. They received no government support.
The movement had its beginning in the magnanimous efforts of John Pounds (d. 1839), a shoemaker of Portsmouth, but the zeal and eloquence of Thomas Guthrie greatly furthered the development and spread of these schools throughout the United Kingdom. Portsmouth is a city of about 196,000 people located in the county of Hampshire on the southern coast of Great Britain. ... Thomas Guthrie (1803 - 1873), divine and philanthropist, born at Brechin, studied for the Church, and became a minister in Edinburgh. ...
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Dicken's encounter with raggedschooling made a lasting impact upon him and is said to have been a significant element in his writing of A Christmas Carol.
In the best of these, the pupils in the female school were being taught to read and write; and though there were among the number, many wretched creatures steeped in degradation to the lips, they were tolerably quiet, and listened with apparent earnestness and patience to their instructors.
The RaggedSchool was of recent date and very poor; but he had inculcated some association with the name of the Almighty, which was not an oath, and had taught them to look forward in a hymn (they sang it) to another life, which would correct the miseries and woes of this.
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