Education has changed a considerable amount since the Middle Ages. Today, most people in America have the opportunity to get a high school education. During the Middle Ages, women and peasants rarely had the chance to go to school. The education system during the Middle Ages may have excluded many people, such as peasants and women, but those that did have the opportunity to learn had many different types of schools to choose from.
Children of peasants and girls rarely had the opportunity to get an education. There are two main reasons that peasants could not get an education. The first reason is that parents had their children begin working in the fields at a young age (“Medieval World” 40). If these boys were not put to work in the fields, …show more content…
Cathedrals began to open schools with the purpose of providing education to the poor (“Medieval World” 40). There were different types of curriculum provided in these schools. The first type was the trivium. This was made up of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and it was offered to all students. More advanced students were allowed to move on to the quadrivium which was made up of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music (“Medieval World” 40). There was usually only one copy of the texts which belonged to the teacher, so this required students to memorize a large amount of material (“Medieval World” 40). The school days in cathedral schools lasted for many hours, with no sports or games, and physical punishment was a result of misbehavior (“Medieval World” 40). Even though, these school days may not have been the most enjoyable, they gave peasants an opportunity to get an …show more content…
Prior to this, students had to travel great distances to get an education from a scholar. These universities started out as academic guilds with the goal of supporting the interests of the scholar and the students (“Medieval World” 41). Universities would teach boys as soon as they were ready for more advanced studies. An education at a university could begin as early as the age of thirteen for some boys (Simkin). In the thirteenth century, Paris, Bologna, and Oxford were the focal points of Europe’s university life. After these three universities grew, more and more universities were founded, and there were seventy-five universities in western Europe by 1500. Since many of them were established by rulers, the universities became the core of a spreading sensation of national identity (“Medieval World” 42). Education in the Middle Ages was very different that what we know today. Poor people were not given many opportunities to get an education, and it was very rare for a girl to be involved in the education system. There were many different types of schools, such as cathedral schools, grammar schools, monastic schools, and universities, which each had its own purpose. While some of the curriculum was different depending on the type of school, religion was a main focus in all of
Children of peasants and girls rarely had the opportunity to get an education. There are two main reasons that peasants could not get an education. The first reason is that parents had their children begin working in the fields at a young age (“Medieval World” 40). If these boys were not put to work in the fields, …show more content…
Cathedrals began to open schools with the purpose of providing education to the poor (“Medieval World” 40). There were different types of curriculum provided in these schools. The first type was the trivium. This was made up of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and it was offered to all students. More advanced students were allowed to move on to the quadrivium which was made up of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music (“Medieval World” 40). There was usually only one copy of the texts which belonged to the teacher, so this required students to memorize a large amount of material (“Medieval World” 40). The school days in cathedral schools lasted for many hours, with no sports or games, and physical punishment was a result of misbehavior (“Medieval World” 40). Even though, these school days may not have been the most enjoyable, they gave peasants an opportunity to get an …show more content…
Prior to this, students had to travel great distances to get an education from a scholar. These universities started out as academic guilds with the goal of supporting the interests of the scholar and the students (“Medieval World” 41). Universities would teach boys as soon as they were ready for more advanced studies. An education at a university could begin as early as the age of thirteen for some boys (Simkin). In the thirteenth century, Paris, Bologna, and Oxford were the focal points of Europe’s university life. After these three universities grew, more and more universities were founded, and there were seventy-five universities in western Europe by 1500. Since many of them were established by rulers, the universities became the core of a spreading sensation of national identity (“Medieval World” 42). Education in the Middle Ages was very different that what we know today. Poor people were not given many opportunities to get an education, and it was very rare for a girl to be involved in the education system. There were many different types of schools, such as cathedral schools, grammar schools, monastic schools, and universities, which each had its own purpose. While some of the curriculum was different depending on the type of school, religion was a main focus in all of