| Summary: | This paper reviews the teaching methods for reading in the early 19th century. Particularly, it examines an educational engraving in which letters and syllables were taught by means of a scene where children are playing in the countryside. During the same period, philanthropic groups furthered a change in the image of children, advocating that they be seen as valuable members of society and persons who needed a civic education. Thus, with political catechisms, a political culture developed among children. Prizes, fun and recreational books started to replace punishments. Popular engravings, cheap and with a substantial circulation, presented educational, heterodox, political, and even revolutionary messages to a much larger audience than in previous periods.
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