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Amazing personage. Sad she killed herself. > Her parents were well educated but lacked money. I do not understand this because because the more we go back in
by begueradj 3y ago
Amazing personage. Sad she killed herself.
> Her parents were well educated but lacked money.
I do not understand this because because the more we go back in history, the more likely only rich people have access to education (well, with miraculous exceptions such as Michael Faraday)
- dalore 3y agoYou can be rich, get an education, and then lose the money but not the education.
- hinkley 3y agoOr spend all your money on education and not profit by it. Still in fashion today.
- bombcar 3y agoIt depends on what you think "rich" is - it changes over time and can mean anything from "middle class" to "filthy rich". It was very common in the 1800s for children of well-off parents to get educated, but then not be well-off themselves (for any number of reasons, including moving to "New World").
- petermcneeley 3y agoThis is a modern notion. In the past doctors and lawyers were quite impoverished. People did not acquire wealth via education they acquired it via inheritance.
- toasterlovin 3y ago> I do not understand this because because the more we go back in history, the more likely only rich people have access to education Yeah, this is what makes Northern Europe kinda special. Literacy became fairly widespread after the printing press. Even people who couldn't afford to send their children to school were educating them at home. There were various subpopulations (not socio-economic classes) in Northern Europe that were basically entirely literate by the 1600s. Like the Puritans, who were mostly middle class (which is to say: one minor calamity away from financial ruin). And by the 1800s basically all but the poorest Northern Europeans were literate.
- gostsamo 3y agoWhen the family educates all of its children but only the eldest inherits, then you might end up in such a situation.