Education

Question 1

What types of schools were there ?

Answer 1

• Parish schools
• petty schools
• private tutors
• grammar schools

Question 2

What was a parish school?

Answer 2

Set up locally by the church and were run by the clergy

Question 3

What did parish schools teach?

Answer 3

Basic literacy

Question 4

Who went to parish schools ?

Answer 4

Mainly for boys up to the age of 10. Children of craftsmen, merchants, gentry and some farmers

Question 5

What were petty schools?

And who were they for?

Answer 5

Set up in teachers homes

For children (boys) up to the age of 10. Boys of gentry, merchants some farmers and craftsmen

Question 6

What was taught at petty schools ?

Answer 6

Taught reading, writing and arithmetic.

Christianity was also taught.

Question 7

What was the equivalent of a petty school for girls called

Answer 7

Dame school

Question 8

What were grammar schools?

Answer 8

Independent of the church and charged fees with some scholarships available.

Question 9

Who attended Grammar schools?

Answer 9

Boys aged 10-14
Children of gentry and merchants (some talented farmers who were offered scholarships)

Question 10

How many new grammar schools were established and between what years ?

Answer 10

70 new schools between 1560-1580

Question 11

What punishments did grammar schools have?

Answer 11

Exclusion
Expulsion
Corporal punishment
Being “on report”

Question 12

How long were the schooldays in a grammar school?

Answer 12

10 hours
Little holidays

Question 13

What were private tutors

Answer 13

Delivered education privately in the homes of the nobility

Question 14

What subjects would boys learn in the nobility class

Answer 14

Subjects that would prepared them for life and roles within the nobility.

Question 15

What was the change like for education in the nobility ?

Answer 15

Little change for mobility as there was no need

Question 16

What was the change like for middle class in education?

Answer 16

LIMITED change:
- change as more grammar schools were set up
- little change because although there was more schools. However, education was still only available to those that were higher in society
- grammar schools only available to boys and not girls

Question 17

What sort of education did the poor get ?

Answer 17

No formal education due to them being financially unable.
They were taught simple work skills and household chores for girls.

Question 18

What was the change like education within the poor ?

Answer 18

LITTLE CHANGE:
- some change as there was a slight improvement in literacy levels in Elizabethan England.
- access to education did not change due to not being able to afford education.
- working class children needed to work to contribute to the household income.

Question 19

What was education in universities like ?

Answer 19

Due to increase of ambitions in upper and middle class families. It led to more students attending Oxford and Cambridge. Studied getting maths and philosophy

Question 20

How old were people when they attended university ?

Answer 20

14

Question 21

What universities did Elizabeth found?

Answer 21

Jesus college
In order to educate a new generation of Protestant clergy

Question 22

What did the introduction of the printing press mean for education ?

Answer 22

It meant that the availability of books and the gradual influence of HUMANISTS placed on a greater importance on education

Question 23

What were humanists ?

Answer 23

A philosophical movement which believes humans have the right to shape their own lives

Question 24

What did Protestantism mean for education?

Answer 24

As the religion grew, the desire to read the bible and scriptures also increased to be further connected to god

Question 25

What did trade have to do religion ?

Answer 25

More people needed to be able to read and write to be able to read maps and travel across the globe

Question 26

What was education reflected by

Answer 26

Social and financial stability

Question 27

I hate was wrong with the girls education ?

Answer 27

It lacked