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Peter Board, late Director of Education 1923

Peter Board, late Director of Education 1923

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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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Board, Peter

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Director of education who revolutionised public schooling in New South Wales in the early twentieth century.