![]() It also provided independence for unmarried women, even though they were paid less than men. ![]() Although pay was not high, women were attracted to teaching because it promised reasonable pay and better prospects than factory work or domestic service. ![]() Boys and girls became pupil-teachers usually around the age of 13 to 15 years, but many boys later left the training to pursue more lucrative jobs. Mathilda Bowser from Pembrey Copperworks School became a pupil-teacher in 1889. (See especially the article ‘Teachers in the 19 th Century’) Yet as the school movement grew it became apparent that teachers with some kind of training were needed, and the pupil teacher, following the demise of the monitorial system, was seen as a way to address this. ![]() There had always been governesses for the rich, ragged schools and dame schools for the poor as well as the Sunday Schools as the great educators of what were regarded as the ‘lower orders’. In the 19 th century there were not many jobs open to women outside the home, but teaching was to become one of them. ![]()
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