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Description: | Victorian schools used older children known as monitors to teach younger children. Unfortunately, the monitor cannot keep order in this mixed-age class, despite the cane he holds. A boy is pinning a notice to his back, and other boys are fighting. The small boy is reading from his slate to the monitor. Slates were used with chalk by younger children as a less-expensive alternative to paper. This is one of many light-hearted school scenes painted by the Newcastle artist Ralph Hedley. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | art movement living in the North East clothes art North East artists children education | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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