Medieval Education Vs Renaissance Education

Education in the Middle Ages and Renaissance The education system in the Middle Ages and Renaissance did not adequately prepare all children for their future. Some major factors in education not being adequate for all children were gender differences,social status, and the opportunity of higher education or extended education. One reason why the education system in the Middle Ages and Renaissance did not adequately prepare all children for their future is because education was not appropriate for different genders. According to Theresa Huntley, the author of Women in the Renaissance,girls did not have very many opportunities to attend school. “Girls did not advance far in the education system, and they were not allowed to attend university”

Social status was thought of very widely in the Renaissance. Author Trudee Romanek says, “For most of the Renaissance period there were two kinds of schooling: Private education by a tutor hired by the student’s parents, or communal schools that were run by the city or town. Both of these cost a family money, so it was usually only the sons of the wealthy, nobles, or the successful merchants and craftsmen who got any education” (Romanek 10). Only about 5% of their population was able to read and write, which meant that not a lot of people got the opportunity to go to school. The 5 main points of education they would focus on would be latin, astronomy, mathematics, grammar, and music. Music was often sang in Latin and was created to teach about religion. According to Catherine Oakes, only the wealthy really had the opportunity to get a higher education. “Wealthier children received a secondary education;so they went on to college from the age of

The northern Humanists and the German movement was nourished by a series of new humanist universities. Author Steven Thompson says, “Northern humanists wrote treatises and founded institutions in the service of a purified Christian faith” (Thompson 170). For these colleges it limits the amount of students that can attened thereby putting that only a certain religion can be accepted. Many colleges in the Renaissance did this to refrain from having everyone become scholars or more educated. Thompson also says, ”The Northern