Education

__Education during the Elizabethan Age__ By:Edwin Belogorlov


 * Education At Home**

Education began at home. At home you learned several basic, but key concepts in life. Somethings your learned included how to honor your parents and treat them with respect, you learned table etiquette which consisted of things like, where to put your napkin, how to chew your food and how to hold your knife, and fork. Children also learned there spot was on the social ladder, by this I mean they learned things like where would be the proper place to sit, and for a girl she would learn to abide by the males rules and satisfy his needs. Girls also concerted on learning their duties around the house like cleaning, and taking care of the children.

**" Dame School"or "Petty School"**

Between the ages of 5 and 7 children attended what we know as elementary school. Petty school was usually taught by a educated housewife at her house in trade for a small fee. In Petty school you focused on basic manners and behavior. You also learned how to read, write, and the basics of grammar. This was done through a new what you call a horn book. A horn book was a parchment which had the alphabet and the prayer. Prayer was very important during this time period due to queen Elizabeth's conversion of England from a Catholic state to a Protestant state. During this time children were also forced to read the Catechism book which was appointed as Elizabeth's guide to being a good christian, children were required to memorize a part of it. Discipline carried on through physical action with 50 hits with the cane.




 * Grammar School Ages 7-10**

Although nobility would be taught by a tutor, children of a lower class would go to grammar school. At the age of seven grammar school focused on learning parts of speech, and vocabulary. At the age of 8 children were taught the rules of grammar, and how to construct sentences properly. At age nine they would have began learning the basics of Latin. Children learned Latin through a book called Lily's Latin Grammar. Lily's Latin Grammar and the Horn Book were the base of Elizabethan education.


 * Grammar School Ages 10-14**

Between the ages of 10 and 14 children learned several important subjects. They continued learning Latin, but they not only were translating from English to Latin they began to translate Latin to English. Other things they learned included literature of authors such as Ovis, Platus, and Ciecro, they also learned arithmitic, and they continued learning about religion.


 * University**

University was for the privilaged men and a very small amount of people were actually able to afford it. The most popular univeristies at that time were Cambridge and Oxford. At the university you could study in several faculties they included the faculty of the arts, the faculty of liberal arts, the faculty of religion, the faculty of law, and the faculty of medicine. Part of studyign at an univerity also included studying abroad, all around europe, but this was only for nobility.


 * [[image:william-shakespeare.jpg width="152" height="208" align="left" link="http://http://members.aye.net/%7Egharris/blog/william-shakespeare.jpg"]]Shakesperes Education**

Very little is actually known about Shakesperes education because there are no written records. but they assume that he went through grammer school because of the skill and perfection in which he wrote his plays, stories, novels, and poems.

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