Primary education Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Renaissance==== {{further|List of oldest schools}} [[File:Priscianus della Robbia OPA Florence.jpg|thumb|Priscian]] While Humanism had a great change on the secondary curriculum, the primary curriculum was unaffected.<ref name=black/> It was believed that by studying the works of the greats, ancients who had governed empires, one became fit to succeed in any field. Renaissance boys from the age of five learned Latin grammar using the same books as the Roman child. There were the grammars of [[Aelius Donatus|Donatus]] and [[Priscian]] followed by ''[[Caesar's Commentaries (disambiguation)|Caesar's Commentaries]]''<!--intentional link to DAB page--> and then [[St Jerome]]'s Latin [[Vulgate]].<ref name="Bartlett">{{cite web |last1=Bertlett |first1=Kenneth |title=The Italian Renaissance - The Education and Learning During the Renaissance |url=https://www.thegreatcoursesdaily.com/education-in-the-renaissance/ |website=The Great Courses Daily |access-date=19 April 2019 |location=University of Toronto |date=15 December 2016 |archive-date=19 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419082615/https://www.thegreatcoursesdaily.com/education-in-the-renaissance/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Wealthy boys were educated by tutors. Others were educated in schools attached to the parishes, cathedrals, or abbeys. From the 13th century, wealthy merchants endowed money for priests to "establish as a school to teach grammar". These early grammar schools were to teach basic, or elementary grammar, to boys. No age limit was specified. Early examples in England included [[Lancaster Royal Grammar School]], [[Royal Latin School]], Buckingham, and [[Stockport Grammar School]]. The [[Reformation]] and the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]] (1548) disrupted the funding of many schools. The schools petitioned the King, [[Edward VI]], for an endowment. Examples of schools receiving endowments are [[King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth]], [[Norwich School|King Edward VI Grammar School, Norwich]] and [[King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon]], where [[William Shakespeare]] was thought to be a pupil from the age of 7 to 14. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page