In an age when school was restricted to children who had already learned to read and write at home, there were many attempts to make school accessible to orphans or to the children of women who worked in factories.
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School children whose parents were absent during the day At about the same time, in 1780, similar infant establishments were established in Bavaria In 1802, Pauline zur Lippe established a preschool center in Detmold.
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In 1816, Robert Owen, a philosopher and pedagogue, opened the first British and probably globally the first infant school in New Lanark, Scotland In conjunction with his venture for cooperative mills Owen wanted the children to be given a good moral.
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Samuel Wilderspin opened his first infant school in London in 1819 and went on to establish hundreds more He published many works on the subject, and his work became the model for infant schools throughout England and further afield.
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