EDEC 247 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Compulsory Education, Maurice Duplessis, Le Devoir

• School: McGill University
• Department: Curriculum and Instruction
• Course: EDEC 247
• Professor: Tino Bordonaro

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Policy issues in quebec education #5: 1997 important date because it is the date that the system as we know it was created. 1867 important date because: maurice duplessis: he was traditional and he was conservative. Society was like that and so was education, so it was a good fit: the church like duplessis, who liked the church. It was an effective relation at the time between the government and religion: educational situation prior to the quiet revolution, in the 1950s, percentage of students who made it to grade 8: british. If you li(cid:448)ed i(cid:374) ur(cid:271)a(cid:374) areas, there (cid:449)as(cid:374)"t a geographi(cid:272)al (cid:272)halle(cid:374)ge. Ho(cid:449)e(cid:448)er, anyone living in rural areas could not commute to a school that offered education beyond elementary: classical colleges were expensive for two reasons: tuition was charged, which was expensive. Challenging to enroll, and challenging for the schools to keep the students: quebec was the second to last province to pass compulsory education (1943).