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Infant school

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Depiction of teaching in an infant class, appeared in "A System for the Education of the Young, Applied to all Faculties" by Samuel Wilderspin (1840)

• ... that in the 1840s infant schools, nine-year-old children were sometimes employed to help teach younger children?

• Source: Whitbread, Nanette (1972). The Evolution of the Nursery-Infant School: A History of Infant Education in Britain, 1800-1970. Routledge. (Page 22)

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/East Suffolk Park, Edinburgh

Created by Llewee (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 11 past nominations.

Llewee (talk) 17:35, 22 August 2024 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article is new enough (albeit almost stretching it), well sourced, hook is interesting, image lacks any copyright issues and QPQ is completed. I don't see anything that would hold this back from DYK, so I approve. I made a slight modification to the hook to fix a grammatical error - 'the 1840s'. TheBritinator (talk) 23:21, 23 August 2024 (UTC)