EDUCATION

By: Kayla Merrell and Alecia Page

P

etty School• Open to most• Bishop licensed

teachers based on religious orthodoxy

• Focus on reading and writing so they could read the Bible

• Used an absey book/horn to learn to write

FIRST YEARS

Side note: Math was bananas. Europe hadn’t completely shifted to the Arabic system we used

today—you know, the one that makes sense. They

used Roman numerals and counted on charts with

tokens as a calculator.. It was a complex process.

MERCHANT TAYLOR SCHOOL (1561)

• Open to everyone

• Maintained a system with

rich vs. poor students:• 100 rich• 100 poor (free)• 50 poor (small fee)

• No food and drinks, four

hour long prayers

If you think the students’ lives were rough, consider the lives of the professors:

The school was run by four people, and those four people were in charge of 250 students. The Highmaster was the head of the school. He had a Chief Usher and two Under Ushers.Richard Mulcaster became the first Highmaster and maintained his position for twenty-five years.

ST. PAUL’S

• A school was attached to

St. Paul’s around the 12th

century, and John Colet

restored it in the late 14th

century.

JOHN COLET

• Colet became the Dean of

St. Paul’s in 1510.• The school admitted

153 boys• Students paid a small

admission that went to a boy who cleaned the school

WESTMINSTER ABBEY

• Founded by Henry VIII in

1540• 120+ students• 40 were Queen’s Scholars

(free tuition, tutoring provided)

• Students who needed to apply for scholarships had to be at least eight years old and must have attended school for at least one year

• The day began at five, prayers started at six, the master arrived at seven, and Latin translations began at eight. Students could only speak in Latin at dinner.

KING HENRY VIII

Meanwhile, a few citizens decided to start some schools of their own.Nicholas Gibson, for instance, started a school in 1536 that admitted about sixty boys. He then opened two more schools in Southwark that was run by parishioners; the first school held one hundred students, and the next school was built specifically for children and toddlers nine years later.Claudius Hollyband, well known for writing a book for teaching French, ran a school for the “sons of citizens.”

EDWARD VI

• Asked the Lord Mayor to

help the orphans and men

overburdened with children• 30 aldermen raised funds• They found over 300

fatherless children, 350 overburdened fathers, and over 500 kids were sent to the hospital.• Blankets, mattresses,

and sheets were donated• 50 workers, 5

administrators, multiple teachers

• Fed wheat bread, drank beer

CHRIST HOSPITAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL

• Students only had bread

on Friday.

• If they didn’t have a name,

they were given one.

• Girls became domestic

servants and boys

apprenticed to trades.

• 800+ dropped out or died.

LINCOLN INN

• Lawyers and law students

stayed in these “Inns of court”

• They lived the “collegiate” life

• Women weren’t admitted• If female servants were

hired, they had to be younger than twelve or older than forty.

• Members had to attend

chapel. Imagine that: pious

lawyers.

MIDDLE TEMPLE

Another Inn of Court

WORKS CITED

http://www.skidmore.edu/~lopitz/KRII/Hornbook.GIF

 

 

 http://minerdescent.com/2010/08/03/ephraim-kempton/ 

 

http://www.hberlioz.com/London/StPaul2B.jpg

http://www.ldysinger.com/@

texts2/1510_colet/John_Colet.jpg

 

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VnsXdzYo_pk/TdU8dmNqygI/AAAAAAAABLc/ErITugk4gJ8/s1600/westminster-abbey-london.jpg

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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

I

f you had to attend one of the schools we discussed,

which would it be and why?

L

ondon seemed to value offering educational

opportunities to the wealthy and the poor. How do

you think this affected their class system?