Impact of growth of grammar schools and unis

Question 1

What was pre-reformation education like?

Answer 1

• provided mainly by the church

- However, the growth of humanist ideas, which emphasised education for all, led to the foundation of grammar schools

Question 2

Grammar school stats

Answer 2

• in 1509 John Cohet founded St Paul’s school, the first school to be based of humanist ideas
• By 1530, there were 124 grammar schools

Question 3

Reformations effect on grammar schools

Answer 3

• some run by the monasteires were closed during the dissolution, but were sometimes refounded by private chartiable donations

Question 4

Grammar schools under the monarcha

Answer 4

• Ed took a keen interest in edu. A series of schls founded in his name. Encoruaged by the Prot reformers emphasis on a Bible in English that should be avaliable to all
• 136 new grammar schools founded under Liz

Question 5

Gender Exclusiveness of the schools

Answer 5

• Schools were only for boys. It was still expected that a girls education would equip her to run a family
• estimated that just under hald of uni students were sons of the gentry and nobility

Question 6

Universities

Answer 6

• still only two unis (ox and C) but number of students were increasing as well as improvements in teaching methods and subjects taught

Question 7

Uni stats

Answer 7

• At oxford numbers increased from 1,150 in 1550 to about 2,000

Question 8

How did influence of humanist thought influence the subjects taught at uni?

Answer 8

• enoucraged a wider range of subjects
• although grammar schools were still primarily focused on the teaching of latin, some taught greek or arithmetic
• at uni this led to a wider curriculum, becoming possible to study greek and rhetoric, languages and music

Question 9

How else did unis help

Answer 9

• development of unis college and tutorial system in this period enhanced the standard of education
• new colleges were founded/refounded. Trinity and Emmanuel in Camberidge in 1546 and 1584
• Christ church and trinity in Oxford in 1546

Question 10

What was the result of this growth of grammar schools and unis?

Answer 10

• raised literacy levels and the standards of education in England and wales
• Work of David Cresssy whows that illiteracy rates for men and women went from 80 and 98 percent in 1550 to 72 and 92 percent in 1600
• by the end of LIz’s rein, only 17 peecent of northern gentlemen could sign their name, by the end of the period, more yeomen and merchents were also becoming literate

Question 11

What is an important bias to note about these schools

Answer 11

• that grammar schools and Unis were the preserve of the wealthy
• Although increasing numbers attended schools and Unis, that did not neccessairlt lead to a highly literate and cultured population
• mostly just gentry and merchants benefitting. In poorer society people needed their children to work to increase family income.