Education

• Printing Press: more books
• Grammar Schools: attended by sons of wealthy families, curriculum focused on English, Latin and Religion
• University: attended by sons of wealthy families, receive a ‘classical’ education, students went on to become lawyers
• ‘Classical’ Education: studying grammar, theology, medicine, philosophy, or navigation
• Private Tutors: taught daughters of wealthy families, similar curriculum to grammar school
• Lower-class Education: education wasn’t compulsory, children of farmers and labourers had no formal education
• Petty Schools: attended by boys from lower-class families, limited space for children, focused on reading, writing and arithmetic
• Dame Schools: attended by some girls from lower-class families, limited space for children, focused on reading, writing and arithmetic
• Apprenticeships: young men from age 14 were taken on as apprentices lived with their new masters, associations formed by people working in different crafts