Education plays an important role in the lives of people today. In today’s society obtaining an undergraduate degree from a college or university is seen as the norm. In conjunction with this education today depends heavily on written texts. This has not always been the case. To be educated in the Roman Republic one was immersed in Greek language and culture (Herrick, 92). As education began to become more prevalent throughout time the idea of Scholasticism became dominant in Europe and in medieval education (Herrick, 122). With the passing of the medieval times came the Renaissance. The Renaissance was a period that stretched from 1400-1700, during this time period education flourished and was heavily influenced by rhetoric (Brian Vickers).
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The Medieval period lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. Contained within the medieval times was that of the dark ages, the dark ages saw a decline the importance of education in the eyes of the public. However, despite this deterioration in the realm of education the idea of scholasticism came about at the end of the dark ages as the educational practices developed over the long course of the Middle Ages. Scholasticism was a sort of authoritarian method of education that had been largely derived from the writing of Aristotle and Plato (Herrick, 122). As such the idea of scholasticism had its roots in rhetoric with a focus on disputation over a set of premises. Scholastics, or those who practiced scholastics, saw a logical connection between word and …show more content…
In the time of the Roman Empire, rhetoric lead to an educational focus on speaking skills and eloquence in language. The Medieval age initially brought about a decline in education during the dark ages, but ultimately lead to scholasticism, which utilized the rhetoric of Aristotle and Plato. The Renaissance period saw the humanism movement which sought to use rhetoric to differentiate between the tangible and intangible aspects of life. With the Enlightenment period the system of education as we know it today began to develop and the idea of teachers, essentially sophists, became more prevalent as educated youth became a larger
The Medieval period lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. Contained within the medieval times was that of the dark ages, the dark ages saw a decline the importance of education in the eyes of the public. However, despite this deterioration in the realm of education the idea of scholasticism came about at the end of the dark ages as the educational practices developed over the long course of the Middle Ages. Scholasticism was a sort of authoritarian method of education that had been largely derived from the writing of Aristotle and Plato (Herrick, 122). As such the idea of scholasticism had its roots in rhetoric with a focus on disputation over a set of premises. Scholastics, or those who practiced scholastics, saw a logical connection between word and …show more content…
In the time of the Roman Empire, rhetoric lead to an educational focus on speaking skills and eloquence in language. The Medieval age initially brought about a decline in education during the dark ages, but ultimately lead to scholasticism, which utilized the rhetoric of Aristotle and Plato. The Renaissance period saw the humanism movement which sought to use rhetoric to differentiate between the tangible and intangible aspects of life. With the Enlightenment period the system of education as we know it today began to develop and the idea of teachers, essentially sophists, became more prevalent as educated youth became a larger