Wednesday 3 October 2012

Australia's first school-house


Walking through Sydney CBD recently we came across a seemingly insignificant memorial at the intersection of Castlereagh, Hunter and Bligh Streets, overlooking Circular Quay.




Education in Australia began with school lessons being held in the first church in Australia, erected by colony chaplain Richard Johnson at Sydney Cove, but notice that it’s only the students of Christian schools that commemorate this.



For anybody interested, the first public sermon was held on 3rd February, 1788, eight days after the arrival of the First Fleet in Port Jackson.           





http://acl.asn.au/resources/richard-johnson-first-chaplain-to-australia/
Posted by at

1 comment:

  1. Discovery Safari with Mr. K7 December 2012 at 16:29

    Okay, what does this prove? Not much except that most of us Aussies seem happy to be ignorant of our own history and Christian heritage. The info centre at The Rocks didn’t know anything about this memorial so we searched for it thru CBD streets, photographed it, then reported back on our find.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)