Education reforms

• 1863 - 1864
• modernist state requires educated populace
• • school’s doubled in first decade of reign
  • nearly 1 million pupils in attendance
  • 8000 to 25k schools by 1878
• secondary schools for all classes

  • schools taught broader subjects such as stem which causes critical thinking and diverts power from church and state
• Higher education is reformed

  • Universitys could govern themselves sin all aspects
  • By 1899 there wree 16000 students - quadrupled
  • Women could attend byt not get degrees
  • Liberal left wing professors appointed
• consequences :

  • primary school educated the masses = later problems
  • higher education fosters critical thinking = students are importantly
  • state fundign was minimal so student collectivised for food banks and to discuss bad conditions - therfore study circles of radical thinking and led yo protests