Crime and Education by Charles Dickens. Short summary

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The author tells of the so-called «Beggar’s Schools,» educational institutions whose staff attempted to teach the poor of London the basics of religion as well as morals.

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Dickens shares with readers a description of the activities of the so-called «Beggar’s Schools,» educational institutions whose employees sincerely sought to teach the poor inhabitants of the United Kingdom capital the basics of morality and religion. In addition, the writer claims that such organizations had been created 3.5 years before the writing of the work in order to have time to help people with a difficult fate before they end up in places not so distant.

According to the artist, it is impossible to think without pain on the soul about how in one of the largest settlements of our planet an impressive source of poverty, ignorance and depravity is constantly maintained. He writes of the «Schools for Beggars» that have been opened in the darkest and at the same time most impoverished parts of the city. The author adds that institutions of this format taught literacy to all comers in the evenings on a free basis.