Berenice S. Avila
LTLW 114
Dr. Potts: Midterm Paper

Pinocchio a Novel to Promote Education

Long before the 19th century schools for children started to emerge. Schooling was very limited for all children. As time passed by, the education system started to change and become better for children. During the time the book was written there seems to be a drastic change for the school systems. Before boys seemed to be more privileged than girls when it came to schooling and what they learned. Then in the 19th century as school continue to progress, in this time it was about also teaching the lower class education. But when it came to the education system in the 20th century specially at the beginning there were many changes that required children to take school much more seriously. In the novel Pinocchio by Carol Collodi, there is great evidence showing the importance of promoting the attendance to school, especially to the children living in poverty. Education in the 19th century had a lot of changes for wealthy boys and girls as well for boys that were from non-wealthy families. There was now schooling for children that were considered infants. Upper class girls for their education were going to be taught by governess, which would give them the values that a young lady should have in order to be married. Upper class boys were sent to public schools, which were still taught the same Latin and grammar. For the middle class girls they attended private schools to be taught sewing and accomplishments while middle class boys attending simply grammar school. In the beginning and close to the middle of this century school was becoming something more important and education for the lower classes was being provided. Children in the lower class did not have an educating system as great as that of the middle and upper class boys. There were methods that would either give