The school struggle is a historical conflict in the Netherlands between 1848 and 1917 over the equalization of public financing for religious schools.
Cartoon by Albert Hahn, suffrage (in the car) versus School Struggle (the line across the road). The name Bram of the person at the tree stands for Abraham Kuyper
Abraham Kuyper
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Abraham Kuyper was the prime minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905, and an influential neo-Calvinist pastor and journalist. He established the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, which u
School struggle (Netherlands)
…virtues. Many Protestants thought this basis not sufficient. Especially the later Anti-Revolutionary politicians Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer and Abraham Kuyper wanted more religion in education and wanted special schools apart from the public schools. Following the Protestants, the Catholics also came into the…
Kuyper in 1905
Caricature of Kuyper by Albert Hahn, from a 1904 edition of the satirical magazine De Ware Jacob.
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