1920s Education

• 1924

  • Many children did not go to school because there were too few schools and because schools were chronically underfunded.
  • Teachers were poorly trained and no longer had authority over their students
  • Decline in educational standards
• Exams, memorising facts, corporal punishments and academics were got rid of, and instead a 'project method' was implemented, in which children were sent out to do practical work in factories.

  Often children would be used as cheap labour
• Number of applicants to university declined rapidly in 1920 and in 1927 there were only 170000 students attending university.

  In 1928, only 55% of the population could read and write. (low literacy rate)