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University of Sydney c1863-1865

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Education

Education in Sydney started with Aboriginal society and the everyday learning and formal initiation of young Aboriginal people. Institutionalised education came with the Europeans, who first created schools for convicts' children, and later for the children of the new gentry and middle classes. Sydney became the centre of education in the colony, with a university, and eventually in 1880, universal education throughout the suburbs of the growing city.

Sydney in 1858

In 1858, Sydney had become a bustling prosperous town, with a university, commercial centre, restaurants and fine town houses. As in London, though, these amenities existed side by side with poverty and misery for some citizens.

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