Education

• Some grammar schools with the name ‘Queen Elizabeth’ in the title


  Taught exclusively in Latin to prepare the sons of the wealthy for university
• New universities and schools

  • Some grammar schools with the name ‘Queen Elizabeth’ in the title still exist today
• Renaissance ideas spread from the continent
• Ability to read and write

  Highly desirable asset
• Wealthier boys education

  • Better educated than ever before
• Universities and schools

  • Oxford
  • Cambridge
  • Inns of Court in London
• Society could be improved through education and learning

  The demand for education grew
• The Inns of Court in London where lawyers were trained was regarded as a third university
• In Elizabethan England there was no compulsory schooling
• Society could be improved through education and learning
• Renaissance ideas spread from the continent


  Society could be improved through education and learning
• Some grammar schools with the name ‘Queen Elizabeth’ in the title still exist today
• Most children’s lives revolved around the family, the church and the farm or workshop
• There were two universities, Oxford and Cambridge