Public Education In Elizabethan Times

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In Elizabethan times, education was not available to the public like it is now today. The rate of literacy back then increased, and one fifth of the population could write their name. The meaning of “public” back then meant that children were not taught at home. The meaning of public has changed throughout the years, and interpretation of the experience of being at school. Unprosperous families back then did not have the money to send their children to school, and consequently the juvenile had to work to support their family. Rich children received England’s top scholar tutors to teach them at home, which were very expensive. There was an increasing opportunity for children in the middle classes to get an education.
If were to be lucky to go to school, the first school children would attend would be a petty school, also known as a dame school that were run by an educated local woman, but the teachers had no specific training. Boys and even some girls ages five to seven would go there, and were give instruction on how to be good Christians, have proper behavior such as table manners. School would begin at six or seven in the morning and end at sundown. They were to be …show more content…

The Elizabethan time was a time for growth for the middle class to get an education. Never ever before this time more middle class boys have been educated at a university, also the sons of craftsmen were able to go to university with a scholarship. Understudies at the colleges concentrated on in a few zones: liberal arts, which included sentence structure, rationale (the science that arrangements with the standards of thinking), music, space science (the logical investigation of the stars, planets, and other divine bodies), and math; human expressions, comprising of reasoning, talk, and verse; regular history (the investigation of nature); religion; medicine; and

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