Quiz: School Throughout Horrible History
Here are seven horrible reasons why you should be relieved that you weren鈥檛 at school way back in history!
School throughout horrible History
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Do you know your Victorian school punishments?
School in Victorian times was a pretty harsh place to be, with strict rules and even stricter punishments - some of which were quite inventive!
Henry VIII鈥檚 son, King Edward, had an unusual way of avoiding caning at school...what was it?
Though a lot of his teachers probably were hesitant to cane him, King Edward couldn鈥檛 be punished anyway, with him being King and all that, so there was a very alternative way that he was punished at school...
In a Tudor classroom, how would you have spelled the word 鈥淭udor鈥 correctly?
As there was no formalised way of spelling in Tudor times, you couldn鈥檛 really spell any word incorrectly! Even the most famous playwright of them all William Shakespeare used different spellings of certain words throughout his works.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart may have been a fantastic composer but what would he most likely get in trouble for if he was in a music lesson with you today?
Getting ready for your first day back can be stressful, but rich Athenians would have prepared for going to school by making sure they had their wax tablet, tunic and鈥 ?
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From the vile Victorians to terrible Tudors, school has definitely been through its fair share of quirks! Thank goodness schools now don't have them.
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