Education

• During Elizabeth’s reign what was built once people understood the importance of education?


  many new schools, that learnt children how to read and write
• What did children learn during their early education at home?

  • how to behave correctly
  • Basic religious education
  • household activities for girls
  • work skills for boys
• How was education split up in?

  • education for rich boys
  • education for rich girls
  • education for poor boys
  • education for poor girls
• What were some children who grew up in a noble household given?


  Private tutors, this was intended to teach children how to behave in Noble society and give them skills to be successful at court
• What were petty schools?


  A small local school that provided a basic education that was run by a local parish priest or was attached to grammar schools or was set up by private individuals
• What type of social class attended grammar schools?


  Usually boys from the upper and middle classes, some schools offered free places to bright boys from poorer backgrounds
• what type of education did someone that attended grammar school get?

  Lessons mainly focused on Latin and classical literature (literature from ancient Greece and Rome) and a few schools also taught Greek
• Where did some boys that attended grammar school later study at?

  Universities such as Oxford and Cambridge
• What could you study at university?

  arithmetic, music, Greek, astronomy and philosophy