The Importance Of Renaissance Education

During the Renaissance, the importance of education was realized as more and more children were enrolled in school in order to develop more well-rounded youths, including girls as the roots of gender equality grew, but the rising importance of school wouldn 't go without criticism. Because of the changes in the typical family life from the Black Death, families started to push for their children to become better educated. A normal Renaissance education was based off a humanist curriculum, placing an importance on developing both mind and body in order to develop a student into a well-rounded adult. The roots of gender equality took root as girls were able to enroll in schools and receive the same education as boys. Schools came to be criticized …show more content…
Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, an Italian humanist, advocated for students to study a variety of topics, with a focus on attaining enlightenment of the mind by studying philosophy, though it 's obvious that from his POV as a Catholic, and eventually pope, that he would advocate for religious studies in education as he must have been a devout Catholic if he would become pope (D. 1) . Battista Guarino, an Italian humanist educator, taught his students the humanities as he believed they were the pursuits and activities proper to mankind and for them to become well-rounded individuals, capable of being proper people, they 'd need to follow a curriculum mirroring his own beliefs: humanism, but his own bias influenced his teaching of humanism, and that would be he himself being a humanist, as by teaching the new generation, he 'd insure that it wouldn 't die out with the old (D. 2). The School of Ordinances of Württemberg, Germany declared that pastors should be diligent about sending their children to school for both the liberal arts and for learning the fear of God, virtue, and discipline, it can be interpreted as they were concerned for children growing up with a lack of fear in god, as fear is the fundamental basis of western religions, but it can also be interpreted that they wished to insure a steady stream of students, as they 're a for-profit school, by threatening pastors in sending their kids (D. 7). The importance of education in England 's job market is obvious as the percentage of Justices of the Peace with an education jumped to an average of 65% in 1636 from 3.67% in 1562, this is a result of the rising number of educated people creating an expectation of being educated for jobs, which can be shown in modern times as many jobs that once required only a