Introduction: The educational movements in the 18th century were a striding path to new educational reforms in the 20th century .The 18th century educational initiatives were more focussed towards the students of upper and middle class elites who had a world view initiative that emphasized facts and truths rather than a faith based approach which was based on supernatural beliefs and ideas it was much similar to the renaissance’s movement that had an approach of looking at the past knowledge whereas the enlightened movement looked at ways in breaking out of the past and looking at future approaches that also included subjects of interests like art and architecture and had a more grounded approach that was scientific in the areas of social
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Students had to go up to the teacher’s desk and recite whatever they had memorized and there was no thing as a methodology and the concept of instructions were unknown. Since the schools had a religious connotation there was no scope for liberal action and the methods used were time consuming and the school lacked basic infrastructure and any teaching and learning aids ,the school hours were usually long and the space used for teaching were either the teachers house or business establishment and these establishment were usually noisy and dirty also the teaching method was so time consuming that the students attended school for years but were only able to start reading and writing and they hardly achieved anything beyond little reading and writing. Sharing of information or discussion of a topic was unknown teaching methods during the era. All the methods practiced were time consuming. Maintaining disciplinary actions were strict in the schools and it was usually done buy the stick approach where children were beaten to maintain discipline. During the 18th century different churches had different schools that were run for the benefit of the poor and these new schools somewhat contributed to the provision of elementary education in the long run and we could see a formal structure emerge. Since most of the children for the church school came from poor background and were supported with the funds available in the church societies. During this era there was good progress regarding elementary education and not so much for secondary or university
Students had to go up to the teacher’s desk and recite whatever they had memorized and there was no thing as a methodology and the concept of instructions were unknown. Since the schools had a religious connotation there was no scope for liberal action and the methods used were time consuming and the school lacked basic infrastructure and any teaching and learning aids ,the school hours were usually long and the space used for teaching were either the teachers house or business establishment and these establishment were usually noisy and dirty also the teaching method was so time consuming that the students attended school for years but were only able to start reading and writing and they hardly achieved anything beyond little reading and writing. Sharing of information or discussion of a topic was unknown teaching methods during the era. All the methods practiced were time consuming. Maintaining disciplinary actions were strict in the schools and it was usually done buy the stick approach where children were beaten to maintain discipline. During the 18th century different churches had different schools that were run for the benefit of the poor and these new schools somewhat contributed to the provision of elementary education in the long run and we could see a formal structure emerge. Since most of the children for the church school came from poor background and were supported with the funds available in the church societies. During this era there was good progress regarding elementary education and not so much for secondary or university