3.1 EDUCATION AND LEISURE Flashcards
Attitudes to education
- no national schooling, but education increasingly valuable
- attitudes still reflected social hierarchy
new influences on education
- HUMANISTS; learning important in its own right, not just for practical reasons
-PROTESTANTS; read bible in your own language to develop a relationship with God
-BUSINESS AND TRADE; made a basic education more important
education for nobility
- children of nobility learned loads of subjs and langs
-cos liz was highly educated, people wanted their daughters to be too
-they also learnt skills for upper class women eg music, dancing etc
-tutored at home
-boys also learnt horse riding and other sports
-children often sent to another noble household to finish their education
-boys -> become noblemen and inherit fathers titles
-girls -> useful social contacts + skills
grammar schools
- more schools than there had ever been before
-PREVIOSULY, the church provided the minimal education
-private schools for bright, rich boys. girls COULDNT ATTEND
-fees varied, often based on how much property owned
-some clever lower class boys could attend, places funded by money from people’s wills
grammar school features
- long year , only holidays at xmas and easter
-10 hour days - latin (greek and French)
-ancient classical historians studied
-debating also taught
discipline and punishments
- boys made monitors to report misbehaviour
PUNISHMENTS (5) - exclusion
- kept in at break
- expulsion after warnings
- CORPORAL (caning)
-being ‘on report’
merchants and craftsmen
some grammar schools had an alternative curriculum for sons of MERCHANTS and CRAFTSMEN
- more practical academic subjs
-education reflecting what the economy needed, but preparing them for the life they were supposed to lead
skilled craftsmen and yeomen
- grammar schools available for sons of skilled craftsmen and yeomen farmers, but most education from apprenticeships
petty schools
- set up and run in teachers home
- rich BOYS would start education here
-reading and writing and arithmetic - harsh punishments
girls schooling
-not many went
-dame schools provided a basic education
-NOT expected to go out into the world
-education focused on the home- skills for wives and mothers
poor children
MOST CHILDREN
- no formal , school based education
-would need to contribute to family income ASAP
IMPACT OF SCHOOLS
- improvement for boys
-not for girls
-some believed that girls should have education, BUT there was the issue of the cost of schools and the loss of an income
universities
only OXFORD and CAMBRIDGE
- start at 14/15
-geometry, music, astronomy etc
-highest qualification is a doctorate in MEDICINE, LAW OR DIVINITY
-liz founded college and so did mild may -> educate more protestant clergymen
Inns of Court
- trained lawyers
-some went here instead of Oxford or Cambridge
nobility and gentry SPORT (5)
- horseback hunting with hounds (m and w)
-hawking (m and w)
-fishing (m and w)
-fencing (MEN)
-real tennis(MEN)
