charity schools
Free pauper education
Charity schools were schools established to educate poor children, funded by religious organizations, philanthropists, or charitable endowments rather than fees.
Common in Britain and colonial America from the 17th through 19th centuries, they provided basic education—reading, writing, arithmetic, and religious instruction—to children whose families couldn't afford tuition.
The charity school taught orphans to read Scripture.
- Sunday schoolsWeekly faith instruction sessions
- benefactorsGivers of aid
- moral instructionTeaching about right conduct
- orphanagesFacilities housing parentless youth
- endowmentsDonated assets yielding income
bluecoat · philanthropy · basic literacy · reading and writing · education · rote learning · charitable trusts · good works · poverty alleviation · destitution · free schools · vocational training · scholarship programs · deserving poor · alms-giving · slates · parish schools · religious education
charity schoolsprivate academies
Tuition-funded educational institutions
elite schools · private schools · public schools · independent schools · finishing schools