PART 3 Education reforms

Question 1

background

Answer 1

• educating first introduced by Romans who had schools with full time teachers
• when romans left the schools closed and left for the church to take over
• when normans arrived schools moved out of monasteries to towns and villages

Question 2

why did Normans need to change education

Answer 2

• as the sizes of towns and villages increased so did the need for a better education system
• people who lived and worked in towns needed better literacy and numeracy skills to increase trade
• Norman barons and knights wanted children to be educated at the best level possible
• reforms within monasteries meant that they could no longer be used for schooling

Question 3

lanfranc and education

Answer 3

• lanfranc wanted the next generation of the Catholic Church within England and he wanted them to know the psalms and services of church off by heart
• also need scribes was the printing press had not been invented

Question 4

what did peasants who went to school often have to do

Answer 4

-make up for not oohing school fees by working in monastery

Question 5

how did education develop with lanfranc

Answer 5

-lanfranc had founded a school in normandy in 1042 and taught for 3 yrs then taught theology for 18yrs
-anselm and pope Alexander II were students
-1077 anselm wrote a book about the attributes of God (Monologium)
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Question 6

early Church schools

Answer 6

church schools founded before Norman conquest:

• kings school Canterbury 597
• kings school Rochester 604

Question 7

secular schools

Answer 7

1382 Winchester college first school to be separate from church

Question 8

grammar schools

Answer 8

• age of 10 some students went to grammar school (distinct from church schools)
• students stayed at grammar school for 4 yrs
• learnt Latin grammar// religion// poetry// basic maths
• school year September to June so that peasant children could harvest crops
• if successful attend uni
• no girls in any schools

Question 9

1096

Answer 9

Oxford university

-1209 cambridge

Question 10

girls

Answer 10

girls could not go to school but the richest may have had a tutor

Question 11

changes under normans

Answer 11

• schools moved out of religious grounds to separate buildings in towns and villages
• by 12th century - 45 schools
• by 13th century - 75 schools
• french was spoken as it was the vernacular language but Latin was still used for writing as it was the main language of christianity

Question 12

language in norman england

Answer 12

• norman elite spoke French
• latin was official language of royal writs and church documents
• anglo norman language developed
• norman French was popular in schools