Education

Question 1

Catherines opinions of Education?

Answer 1

Enlightened monarch needs to be understood; needed to educate subjects for them to accept
–> Schools teach morality + encourage obedience to authority

Question 2

When had work on education began?

Answer 2

(1764) work began
(1771) no practical sytem had been produced

Question 3

Affects of provincial reform on education?

Answer 3

(1775) obliged local welfare boards to establish schools
–>results depended on attitudes of provincial governrs and local nobility
–> (1780) good school for noble but not for townspeople

Question 4

How did she recifty the difference to education noble and townspeople?

Answer 4

(1782) National Commission on Education
–> moedrately conservative system

Question 5

When was network of free coeducational primary and secondary schools created in towns and primary schools in rural districts?

Answer 5

(5th Aug 1786) in principle open to all classes
–> serf children needed consent from owners
(1788) opened in 26 provinces
–> only near Moscow or St.Petersburg

Question 6

Negatives of free coeducational?

Answer 6

equipment scare everywhere and schools had brief lives

Question 7

Success in education?

Answer 7

(May 1764) Foundling Hosptial for shetltering and schooling abandoned children established
(Apr 1764) Smolny Institue for Nobel Girls opened
(1800) 3000 free non-compulsory schools educating 20,000 pupils

Question 8

Why was education important (epoch of palace coups)?

Answer 8

Important for the needs of the state
People didnt want to conform to Western influences

Question 9

What did Peters successors do in education?

Answer 9

Didn’r reform in case it risked opposition and social instability

Question 10

Literacy rates in epoch of palace coups?

Answer 10

6% males and 4% females literacy rates (very low to other countries)
26 grammar schools w/ only 6000 students