Post on 11-Jan-2016
EDUCATION
By: Kayla Merrell and Alecia Page
P
etty School• Open to most• Bishop licensed
teachers based on religious orthodoxy
• Focus on reading and writing so they could read the Bible
• Used an absey book/horn to learn to write
FIRST YEARS
Side note: Math was bananas. Europe hadn’t completely shifted to the Arabic system we used
today—you know, the one that makes sense. They
used Roman numerals and counted on charts with
tokens as a calculator.. It was a complex process.
MERCHANT TAYLOR SCHOOL (1561)
• Open to everyone
• Maintained a system with
rich vs. poor students:• 100 rich• 100 poor (free)• 50 poor (small fee)
• No food and drinks, four
hour long prayers
If you think the students’ lives were rough, consider the lives of the professors:
The school was run by four people, and those four people were in charge of 250 students. The Highmaster was the head of the school. He had a Chief Usher and two Under Ushers.Richard Mulcaster became the first Highmaster and maintained his position for twenty-five years.
ST. PAUL’S
• A school was attached to
St. Paul’s around the 12th
century, and John Colet
restored it in the late 14th
century.
JOHN COLET
• Colet became the Dean of
St. Paul’s in 1510.• The school admitted
153 boys• Students paid a small
admission that went to a boy who cleaned the school
WESTMINSTER ABBEY
• Founded by Henry VIII in
1540• 120+ students• 40 were Queen’s Scholars
(free tuition, tutoring provided)
• Students who needed to apply for scholarships had to be at least eight years old and must have attended school for at least one year
• The day began at five, prayers started at six, the master arrived at seven, and Latin translations began at eight. Students could only speak in Latin at dinner.
KING HENRY VIII
Meanwhile, a few citizens decided to start some schools of their own.Nicholas Gibson, for instance, started a school in 1536 that admitted about sixty boys. He then opened two more schools in Southwark that was run by parishioners; the first school held one hundred students, and the next school was built specifically for children and toddlers nine years later.Claudius Hollyband, well known for writing a book for teaching French, ran a school for the “sons of citizens.”
EDWARD VI
• Asked the Lord Mayor to
help the orphans and men
overburdened with children• 30 aldermen raised funds• They found over 300
fatherless children, 350 overburdened fathers, and over 500 kids were sent to the hospital.• Blankets, mattresses,
and sheets were donated• 50 workers, 5
administrators, multiple teachers
• Fed wheat bread, drank beer
CHRIST HOSPITAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL
• Students only had bread
on Friday.
• If they didn’t have a name,
they were given one.
• Girls became domestic
servants and boys
apprenticed to trades.
• 800+ dropped out or died.
LINCOLN INN
• Lawyers and law students
stayed in these “Inns of court”
• They lived the “collegiate” life
• Women weren’t admitted• If female servants were
hired, they had to be younger than twelve or older than forty.
• Members had to attend
chapel. Imagine that: pious
lawyers.
MIDDLE TEMPLE
Another Inn of Court
WORKS CITED
http://www.skidmore.edu/~lopitz/KRII/Hornbook.GIF
http://minerdescent.com/2010/08/03/ephraim-kempton/
http://www.hberlioz.com/London/StPaul2B.jpg
http://www.ldysinger.com/@
texts2/1510_colet/John_Colet.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VnsXdzYo_pk/TdU8dmNqygI/AAAAAAAABLc/ErITugk4gJ8/s1600/westminster-abbey-london.jpg
http://thumbs2.modthesims.info/img/6/5/5/0/3/7/MTS2_Ahlaam21_1083768_henry_viii_1.jpg
http://heraldictimes.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/edward-vi.jpg?w=427&h=540
http://www.fotosearch.com/IST530/1619134
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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
I
f you had to attend one of the schools we discussed,
which would it be and why?
L
ondon seemed to value offering educational
opportunities to the wealthy and the poor. How do
you think this affected their class system?