Education
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- Created on: 06-06-18 15:39
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- Education
- Attitudes to education
- becoming increasingly important
- they still reflected the social hierarchy of the country
- not about nurturing talent and ambition, but for preparing for life you were expected to lead.
- focused on practical skills as well as basic literacy
- very few children, mainly boys, went to school at all
- becoming increasingly important
- New influences on education
- humanists believed that learning was important
- studied work of ancient philosophers and mathematicians to develop their understanding of the world
- education was very important if people were to stop being so superstitious and fulfill their potential as human beings
- Protestants believed that people should be able to read the bible in their own language, to develop their relationship with God.
- Encouraged more to become literate.
- business and trade developed: a basic education became more important
- for most people, education was limited according to their place in society.
- A child's education was dependent on whether their parents valued a school based education
- humanists believed that learning was important
- Education in the Home
- Nobility
- learned a variety of different subjects: Greek, history etc.
- boys: horse ridding, archery etc.
- many girls were being educated on Elizabeth's example: music, dancing etc.
- tutored with their brothers, but separately after 7
- sent to another noble household to finish their education
- sent to another noble family as social contacts and to perfect the skills expected of a noble women
- tutored with their brothers, but separately after 7
- learned a variety of different subjects: Greek, history etc.
- Middling sorts and grammar schools
- 42 schools founded in the 1560s, and 30 more in the 1570s.
- schools for boys from well off families in town
- Girls were educated in the home by their mothers.
- funded by people who left money to the school: some lower class boys could attend for free.
- Latin, classical historians, sports, prayer, debate
- Discipline and punishments
- corporal punishment
- exclusion from school
- expulsion
- Nobility
- Attitudes to education
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