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Fort Street Public School 1871

Fort Street Public School 1871

By

Charles Percy Pickering

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State Library of New South Wales

[a089443 / SPF/443]

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Pickering, Charles Percy

State Library of New South Wales

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.

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Victorian architecture