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Middle Ages
Schooling in Western Europe during the Middle Ages almost disappeared. There were very few church schools and song schools of the cathedrals. The teachers were monks and priests. Education reverted to the oral teaching by the family and local community. Boys learned their father’s craft and girls learned how to keep the household.
The boys of the high class would get an education by monks. The main method of learning was still memorizing. There were no books to be had by the students. Discipline was very strict. Students were punished by the birch.
Wax tablets and styluses made of ivory were still the main educational tool. Quills and parchments were very expensive only used by the advanced students.
The vast majority of the population was illiterate. Thus literate people like scribes, clerks and lawyers had great power.
The subjects that the students learned were the liberal arts and they were divided in two categories: the Trivium which included grammar, rhetoric and logic and the more advanced Quadrivium which followed and included Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy and Music.
Middle Ages
Schooling in Western Europe during the Middle Ages almost disappeared. There were very few church schools and song schools of the cathedrals. The teachers were monks and priests. Education reverted to the oral teaching by the family and local community. Boys learned their father’s craft and girls learned how to keep the household.
The boys of the high class would get an education by monks. The main method of learning was still memorizing. There were no books to be had by the students. Discipline was very strict. Students were punished by the birch.
Wax tablets and styluses made of ivory were still the main educational tool. Quills and parchments were very expensive only used by the advanced students.
The vast majority of the population was illiterate. Thus literate people like scribes, clerks and lawyers had great power.
The subjects that the students learned were the liberal arts and they were divided in two categories: the Trivium which included grammar, rhetoric and logic and the more advanced Quadrivium which followed and included Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy and Music.