Transcript Who was involved in the education?

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• Monks -taught boys how to read and write
Latin
• Bishops• taught schools called cathedra schools
Education In the (middle ages)
• In the Middle Ages most people were
illiterate but not all. Upper class children
were educated when they were pages.
Among the poor the better educated
priests might teach some children to read
and write a little. In many towns there were
grammar schools where middle class boys
were educated.
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Education In the (middle ages)
• They got their name because they taught
Latin grammar. Boys worked long hours in
the grammar schools and discipline was
severe. Boys were beaten with rods or
birch twigs.
• Students began learning with the seven
liberal arts
• The liberal arts are connsisted as lattin
grammer rhetoric
,logic,arithemetic,geometry, astronomy
and music
• They needed education so people could
read and write. and so they could speak to
others by learning there own languages
What education was needed for in
the middle ages
• they needed education because it helped
them to build and helped them learn how
to help people when there sick
Around the age of 7 children began to learn
what they would need to learn for adult
lives ..
Life of children (middle ages)
Students in the middle ages sat together
on the floor, while scrawling notes from
lessons using a bone or ivory styles on
wooden tablets covered with green or
black wax.
Life of children (middle ages)
• When a male child was old enough to be
useful he would go to work with his father
or another village to be an apprentice
Life of children (middle ages)
• The boy would learn everything he needs
to know to beable to help his family.
Life of children (middle ages)
• The youngest children were given small
chores like feeding the chickens or
washing the dishes
Life of children (middle ages)
• They were free to play most of the time up
to the age of seven
Life of children (middle ages)
• Younger male children had to attend
village schools run by the public church
there they would learn important prayers
and songs and smattering of Latin and
mathematics
Life of children (middle ages)
• Girls didn’t really go to a school they
stayed home with there moms learning
how to be a great house wife’s and
mothers
Life of children (middle ages)
• They learned how to weave cloth and cook
and grow vegetables and make butter and
clean houses and tend children and other
things
Life of children (middle ages)
• Peasant children whose families were
almost always poor wouldn’t have had
many toys
Life of children (middle ages)
• older siblings might make a child a
wooden doll or a set of blocks for the
young to play with
Life of children (middle ages)
• Most of the time the kids would play with
the available things and use there
imaginations
questions
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What did youngest do ?
What was taught ?
Who taught ?
Up to what age were they free to play to ?
True or false girls went to school
Answer page
• Feeding chicken’s and washing dishes
• lattin grammer rhetoric
,logic,arithemetic,geometry, astronomy
and music
• Monk’s
• 7 years old
• False
sources
• http://library.thinkquest.org/6105/Education
.html
• http://www.localhistories.org/middle.html
• http://www.medieval-life.net/education.htm
• http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/mi
ddleages/pdailylife.html