education Flashcards
Noble Boys’ education
- Private tutor at home until early teens
- Noble household until mid-teens
- University
Noble Girls’ education
- Private tutor at home until teens
- Sent to another Noble household until mid-teens
Middle Class Boys’ education
- Petty school from 4-8
- Grammar school from 8-14
- University(IF RICH), or apprenticeship
Middle Class Girls’ education
Dame school
Lower class children’s educations
They had no formal education
What subjects were noble children taught?
-Latin, Greek, History, Theology
girls- music, dancing, needlework, archery, horse-riding
boys-horse-riding, archery, fencing, swimming, wrestling
What were grammar schools?
Private schools set up for boys considered to be bright, sons of middling sorts (gentry, professionals, business owners)
Where were middle-class girls usually educated?
At home by their mothers (preparing them for married life and running a household)
How many grammar schools were founded in the 1560s?
42
How many grammar schools were founded in the 1570s?
30
What were punishments like in elizabethan england?
- Exclusion from school
- Being kept in at break-time
- Being ‘on report’
- Corporal punishment
- Expelled
What was taught at grammar schools?
- Languages- latin, sometimes greek and french
- studies of classical historians, philosophers and writers- (Like Aristotle and Seneca)
- sports- Archery, wrestling and running
- Memorising and reciting large texts (often religious)
What did merchants’ and craftsmens’ sons focus on at school?
-Arithmetic, English, Writing, Geography
some grammar schools had an alternative curriculum
What did skilled craftsmens’ and yeomens’ sons study?
- There were grammar schools available
- Most would have an apprenticeship to learn the family trade
school depended on whether the family needed them, some would leave school early to be an apprentice
Where did girls get an education?
Dame schools- run by a local, educated woman.
provided a basic education
