3. Culture
• Romanticism
– Emphasized emotion rather than reason
– Are often peaceful scenes of rural life or
landscapes
– Ludwig van Beethoven is best known composer of
this age
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8. • Realism
– Emphasizing what life is really like
– Often showed life as pessimistic and hopeless
– Charles Dickens wrote about the negative aspects
of the Industrial Revolution
– Leo Tolstoy wrote War and Peace.
13. Education
• In Britain:
– Sunday School began as an effort to teach poor
children how to read
– Parliament voted to spend money to build public
schools for poor children
– Required children to attend between ages 5-10
– Later it was 5-14, and then part time until 18
14. • Germany
– First to provide primary education that was
required for all children
– Developed one of the finest systems of education
in Europe
15. • France
– Jules Ferry formed the school system that
required all children to attend school until the age
of 15
– This system has continued with little change
Notas do Editor
Placed an emphasis on the mysterious and the supernatural
Pictured every day life in realistic detailIncluding the slums where workers livedWar and Peace emphasized the struggles of all kinds of people rather than focusing on leaders such as Napoleon or the czar
The goal was for these students to be able to read the Bible and learn God’s word
He was minister of public instructionEstablished at end of the 19th century