It was characterized by a revived emphasis on the humanistic aspects of the Greek and Latin classics. Like the medieval Scholastics, Renaissance educators, called ____________ looked to the past rather than the future.
classical humanists
Unlike the Scholastics, however, classical humanists based their teaching more on literature than on theology.. In Italy, an artistic and literary center of the Renaissance, humanists saw themselves as ______________
critics and custodians of knowledge
_____________ the great writers of their age, wrote in the Italian language rather than in Latin. Italian nobles established humanist schools to educate their children in the revived classical learning.
Dante
Petrarch
Boccaccio
in The Book of the Courtier portrayed the courtier as a tactful and diplomatic person,50 who having received a liberal education in the classical literature, served his ruler with style and elegance.
Baldesar Castiglione (1478-1529)
As a vintage wine is used to grace an elegant dinner, humanist education was for the_________________. It was not provided to everyone but reserved for an elite.
connoisseur
the leading classical humanist scholar of the Renaissance, described the model teacher as a cosmopolitan Christian humanist
Desiderius Erasmus (1465-1536),
Erasmus emphasized the unifying features of ____________ that were common to all believers rather than the doctrines that separated them.
Christianity
Erasmus developed the following method for teaching literature:
(1) present the author's biography;
(2) identify the type, or genre, of the work;
(3) discuss the plot;
(4) reflect on the book's moral and philosophical implications;
(5) analyze the author's writing style.
He advised those who would tutor a prince to make sure that he learned as much as he could about the people of his kingdom—about their traditions, customs, work, and problems.
The Education of the Christian Prince (1516).
Unlike ____________who urged that the king should rule by fear and manipulation, Erasmus advised the prince to gain the love of his subjects and to study the arts of peace, especially diplomacy, and avoid war.
Machiavelli
It is also important to note that Erasmus and other Renaissance educators were moving to a humanistic, or ____________Rather than approaching their human subject through scientific inquiry, however, humanist educators explored their concerns through literature.
human-centered
The humanists' approach was later challenged by____________(discussed in the chapter on Pioneers of Modern Teaching), who all argued against instruction that emphasized literature exclusively while neglecting experience.
Rousseau Pestalozzi
Spencer
Dewey
The invention of the_____________ in Europe advanced literacy and schooling dramatically. Before the printing press, students painstakingly created their own copy of a text by taking dictation from teachers.
printing press in 1423
a German jeweler, invented a durable metal alloy to form letters for the printing press.
Johannes Gutenberg
His _____________, in 1455, was the first major book printed thus. Printing spread throughout Europe, multiplying the output and cutting the costs of books. It made information accessible to a larger reading population.
Bible
The printing press inaugurated the "__________________." It was a momentous technological innovation whose consequences recollect that of the advent of computer information dissemination.
information revolution
_________________of scholastic authorities weakened the Catholic Church's central authority to enforce religious conformity. Economic innovations generated the rise of the middle classes who began to resist the older aristocratic political authorities.
Humanist criticism
protestant religious reformers—including______________—sought to free themselves and their followers from papal authority and to interpret their own religious doctrines and practices.
John Calvin, Martin Luther, Philipp Melanchthon, Ulrich Zwingli
__________________ formulated their own educational theories, established their own schools, structured their own curricula, and reared their children in the reformed creeds.
Protestant reformers
__________________concerned themselves with questions of knowledge, education, and schooling because they wanted these powerful weapons to advance the Protestant cause. On questions of knowledge, they asserted that every person had the right to read the Bible as the central source of religious truth.
Luther, Melanchthon, Calvin,
and other Reformation leaders
It was characterized by a revived emphasis on the humanistic aspects of the Greek and Latin classics. Like the medieval Scholastics, Renaissance educators, called ____________ looked to the past rather than the future.
classical humanists
Unlike the Scholastics, however, classical humanists based their teaching more on literature than on theology.. In Italy, an artistic and literary center of the Renaissance, humanists saw themselves as ______________
critics and custodians of knowledge
_____________ the great writers of their age, wrote in the Italian language rather than in Latin. Italian nobles established humanist schools to educate their children in the revived classical learning.
Dante
Petrarch
Boccaccio
in The Book of the Courtier portrayed the courtier as a tactful and diplomatic person,50 who having received a liberal education in the classical literature, served his ruler with style and elegance.
Baldesar Castiglione (1478-1529)
As a vintage wine is used to grace an elegant dinner, humanist education was for the_________________. It was not provided to everyone but reserved for an elite.
connoisseur
the leading classical humanist scholar of the Renaissance, described the model teacher as a cosmopolitan Christian humanist
Desiderius Erasmus (1465-1536),
Erasmus emphasized the unifying features of ____________ that were common to all believers rather than the doctrines that separated them.
Christianity
Erasmus developed the following method for teaching literature:
(1) present the author's biography;
(2) identify the type, or genre, of the work;
(3) discuss the plot;
(4) reflect on the book's moral and philosophical implications;
(5) analyze the author's writing style.
He advised those who would tutor a prince to make sure that he learned as much as he could about the people of his kingdom—about their traditions, customs, work, and problems.
The Education of the Christian Prince (1516).
Unlike ____________who urged that the king should rule by fear and manipulation, Erasmus advised the prince to gain the love of his subjects and to study the arts of peace, especially diplomacy, and avoid war.
Machiavelli
It is also important to note that Erasmus and other Renaissance educators were moving to a humanistic, or ____________Rather than approaching their human subject through scientific inquiry, however, humanist educators explored their concerns through literature.
human-centered
The humanists' approach was later challenged by____________(discussed in the chapter on Pioneers of Modern Teaching), who all argued against instruction that emphasized literature exclusively while neglecting experience.
Rousseau Pestalozzi
Spencer
Dewey
The invention of the_____________ in Europe advanced literacy and schooling dramatically. Before the printing press, students painstakingly created their own copy of a text by taking dictation from teachers.
printing press in 1423
a German jeweler, invented a durable metal alloy to form letters for the printing press.
Johannes Gutenberg
His _____________, in 1455, was the first major book printed thus. Printing spread throughout Europe, multiplying the output and cutting the costs of books. It made information accessible to a larger reading population.
Bible
The printing press inaugurated the "__________________." It was a momentous technological innovation whose consequences recollect that of the advent of computer information dissemination.
information revolution
_________________of scholastic authorities weakened the Catholic Church's central authority to enforce religious conformity. Economic innovations generated the rise of the middle classes who began to resist the older aristocratic political authorities.
Humanist criticism
protestant religious reformers—including______________—sought to free themselves and their followers from papal authority and to interpret their own religious doctrines and practices.
John Calvin, Martin Luther, Philipp Melanchthon, Ulrich Zwingli
__________________ formulated their own educational theories, established their own schools, structured their own curricula, and reared their children in the reformed creeds.
Protestant reformers
__________________concerned themselves with questions of knowledge, education, and schooling because they wanted these powerful weapons to advance the Protestant cause. On questions of knowledge, they asserted that every person had the right to read the Bible as the central source of religious truth.