Education And Leisure Flashcards
What was different about education now and then?
There was no national school system
Education was about pratical skills
How many people would go to school?
A small % mostly boyes
Very few girls as there job was to be a housewife
What is social mobility?
Being able to change your position in society
What were humanists?
Thinkers and writers in the 16th Century
What did humanists believe?
Learning was important and was a right and that we shoudl study the work of ancient philosphers and mathmaticions
How did Protostantism encourage education?
They thought people should be able to read the bible in their own language
This encouraged many epopel to become literative
What else encouraged education?
Business was becoming more popular and not as much farming
What may a child of nobility learn?
Languages
Latin, Greek, History, Philosophy, Governemt and Theology
Girls may also learn - how to act as an upper class women, needelwork, horse riding
What skills were learnt by girls?
Where?
Girls may also learn - how to act as an upper class women, needelwork, horse riding, archery
At home by a tutor or at another noble houshold
What skills were learnt by boys?
Where?
Horse riding, archery, fencing, swimming, wrestling and other sports (only fit for men)
At home or at another noble houshold
What would the eldest son inherit from the farther?
His title
Why were boys and girls sent to other noble families to finish thir education?
Eldest sons could learn how to become the next noble man (once the farther died)
Girls could make useful contacts and perfect the skills expected from a noble women
How many grammar schoold were founded in the 1560’s?
42
How many grammar schoold were developed in the1570s?
30 more
What were grammar schools?
Private schools set up for boys considered smart
Not for girls
Who were girls normally educated from?
Their mom
How much did it cost to go to a grammar school?
It varied normally depending on how much propety the boy’s family owned
Some smart lower coass boys could attend for nothings
How did poor propoe go to grammar schools?
If they were considered smart then there place may be funded by donations to the school
Describe a school term/ day?
Hard most schoold started at 6/7am and lasted almost 10 hour
Holidays were only at easter and christmas
What philosiphers may you study?
Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Seneca
What was thought to be essencial in schools?
Debating
Memorising huge chunks if texts eg the bible
How was behavior managed in Elizebethen schools?
The tracher would enforce them
Outside schoold 2 boys were made monitors who had to report misbehavior to the teacher
What would hapoen if a child was reported to the school?
Theu would be questioned and punished on Monday 9,am
Or of the misbehavior was more serious he would be punished more serverly
What were punishments in Elizebethen schools?
Loosing of break time Expelled Corporal punnihmenr (including canning) Being "on report" behavior monitered closly by teacher Exclusion from school
What would some grammar schools do for sons of Merchants and Craftmen?
Run alternate cirriculums of more useful skills such as English, Writing, Maths, Geography
How were yeomen’s sons often educated?
Through apprenticeships
Why may many people not go to school?
Too expensive
Many families needed there sons home to help with farming ect
School was not compulsive therefore it was on wether or not the dad thought a education was necesary
You were needed to work to bring an incime into the family
An education wasn’t needed for women
What was a petty school?
Describe them?
Schools set up in teachers hoems for sutdents who couldn’t affort to semd them to schools
Only for boys
Punishments often really harsh beatings for poor behavior or not doing well in class
What may you learn on a petty school?
Reading, writing in English, Basic Aritmatic
Who said that by x year everyone town of England had a grammar school?
William Harrison
1577
Whatwas a girls petty school called?
Dame school
Who were dame schools normally run by?
An educated women
