Learning Collection (page 7)

French army drum school, 1903. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 17th May 1903

Artistic instruction of French soldiers at the Salon, Paris, 1902. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 27th July 1902

The Astronomer, 1898. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 29th May 1898

Catechism, 1898. Artist: L Meunier
Catechism, 1898. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 5th June 1898

The School of Athens, 1509. Artist: Raphael
The School of Athens, 1509. Depiction of figures representing each subject that must be mastered in order to hold a true philosophic debate - astronomy, geometry, arithmetic, and solid geometry

Might not the pupil know more?, 1799. Artist: Francisco Goya
Might not the pupil know more?, 1799. Plate 7 of Los caprichos. Los Caprichos were published in 1799 at a time of social repression

The Parnassus, from the Stanza delle Segnatura, 1510-1511. Artist: Raphael
The Parnassus, from the Stanza delle Segnatura, 1510-1511. Executed between 1508 and 1511 for the notoriously temperamental, but adventurous, patron of the arts, Pope Julius II

Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), 18th century. Persian manuscript in Islamic style illustrating the12th century Persian poem Book of Alexander the Great (Eskandar-nameh) by Nezami

Virgin and Child, detail, 16th century. A hand holds open an illuminated devotional book with clasps and fore-edge gilt. In the background a traveller fills his water bottle in a stream

St Jerome, 1543. Artist: Jan Sanders van Hemessen
St Jerome, 1543

L Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, Paris, 1887. First year students doing practical work in the laboratory

Ecole des Ponts-et-Chaussees, Paris, 1894. Civil engineering students at their studies in a classroom

Children at play, Japanese painting, 18th century. A group of five children seated around a mat playing, reading and writing. From the British Museum, London

Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894), British archaeologist, poltician and diplomat, 1851. Excavated Nimrud/Nineveh, Iraq. Wood engraving

School of Athens, c1510. Artist: Raphael
School of Athens, c1510. Fresco showing Greek philosphers and scientists with Plato (428-348BC) and his pupil Aristotle (384-322BC) in the centre

Teaching girls to read in the Ragged School Union school, Lambeth, London, 1868. The Ragged School Union was a charity founded in 1844 by the social reformer Lord Shaftesbury to establish schools

Aztec education of boys (left) and girls (right). Boys are shown being punished by a father who holds him over a fire of burning chillies while lecturing him

Woman armaments worker, World War II, 1940. A woman in a tank factory being instructed in the use of a metal power drill

British girls of the Womens Land Army learning to plough with a tractor, World War II, 1939-1945. The Womens Land Army was established in June 1939 to meet the demand for agricultural labour caused

Students at l Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, Paris, 1887. First year students working in their private study time

Woman at the Churn, c1864-1900. Artist: Mihaly Munkacsy
Woman at the Churn, c1864-1900

Masters and pupils at the Athenian school where studies included music. Greek red figure vessel. From the Staatliche Museum, Berlin

Benito Mussolini, 1925. Mussolini (1883-1945), Italian Fascist dictator. From a private collection

Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) as a youth, listening to his tutor Aristotle, c1875. In only 13 years, Alexander III of Macedon conquered a vast empire stretching from the Mediterranean to India

Library of the Royal Institution, Albermarle Street, London, 1808-1811. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
Library of the Royal Institution, Albermarle Street, London, 1808-1811. Interior view of the library showing gentlemen reading and engaged in discussion

Frontispiece of Denis Diderot Encyclopedie, Paris, 1751-80. Engraving

Schoolmaster and pupils, c1820. Artist: George Fisher
Schoolmaster and pupils. Frontispiece of George Fisher The Instructor or, Young Mans Best Companion London, c.1820. Woodcut

Schoolmaster and his pupils, 18th century. Woodcut

Lecture on physiology and hygiene at the YMCA, 1887
Lecture on physiology and hygiene in progress at the Young Mens Christian Association (YMCA), Exeter Hall, London. Wood engraving

Mixed Sunday School class in a poor district of London, 1873. The Sunday School movement was started by Robert Raikes in Gloucester, England in 1780. Wood engraving

Boys class at an American Sunday School, 1890. The Sunday School movement was started by Robert Raikes in Gloucester, England in 1780. Wood engraving

Wall painting of Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric and Music from le Puy, France

Roman mosaic of Plato and his school of philosophers, Pompeii, Italy

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