In today’s work force nine times out of ten, you will need a college degree to get some of the most basic jobs. When they look at your resume however they will always take a candidate who graduated from an Ivy League school instead of a CCSU grad. Why? Well the reality is that Ivy League grad might not be “Smarter” than you but the education they got prepared them for the “Human” workforce. During the Renaissance, the field of education went through a major reconstruction which allows for this acceptance of Ivy Leaguers. We call this movement the Renaissance Humanism.
When we look at the original style of teaching, the seven liberal arts had a lot going for them. In it, it contained two major groups which included the Trivium (Grammar, Dialectic and Rhetoric) and the Quadrivium (Arithmetic, Geometry, …show more content…
We could thank some of the first humanists like Petrarch, who was a freelance scholar and poet of his time. He felt that the era he lived in (the dark ages) was hell and if something didn’t change, human civilization would seize to exist. Petrarch was known to make fun of scholars (Merriman 57) because they could tell you the square root of 723 but wouldn’t know how to talk to their friend about a dating issue. This proves the reason why the humanistic period was very valuable to the education field. The main idea of the Renaissance was the arts and due to the Humanist movement, it allowed for new innovations. In a whole, the Renaissance Humanist movement was important to the complete period of the Renaissance. It opened the minds of many thinkers of the period to relook their subjects. We need to not only be able to understand how to solve for the area of a triangle but be able to determine what’s right and wrong. Without Patriarch and the other humanists, I don’t believe that we could have gotten this far in
When we look at the original style of teaching, the seven liberal arts had a lot going for them. In it, it contained two major groups which included the Trivium (Grammar, Dialectic and Rhetoric) and the Quadrivium (Arithmetic, Geometry, …show more content…
We could thank some of the first humanists like Petrarch, who was a freelance scholar and poet of his time. He felt that the era he lived in (the dark ages) was hell and if something didn’t change, human civilization would seize to exist. Petrarch was known to make fun of scholars (Merriman 57) because they could tell you the square root of 723 but wouldn’t know how to talk to their friend about a dating issue. This proves the reason why the humanistic period was very valuable to the education field. The main idea of the Renaissance was the arts and due to the Humanist movement, it allowed for new innovations. In a whole, the Renaissance Humanist movement was important to the complete period of the Renaissance. It opened the minds of many thinkers of the period to relook their subjects. We need to not only be able to understand how to solve for the area of a triangle but be able to determine what’s right and wrong. Without Patriarch and the other humanists, I don’t believe that we could have gotten this far in