Petty Schools

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by Lilia Civettini7 views·Updated Dec 8, 2020
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  1. Hi, My name is Lilia, and today I will be
  2. talking about education.
  3. In 1600 Children started at Petty School that ages four
  4. or five years old.
  5. Most Children, including the poor, went to petty schools.
  6. They were often held in a large home, and the
  7. mother of the household would teach the Children.
  8. They were also called nursery schools or Dame schools in
  9. the US In PE schools, the Children were taught to
  10. read and write in English.
  11. Okay. Students at tutor schools or grammar schools were taught
  12. Latin. This was to prepare them for university schools.
  13. Subjects like math, music and science were rarely taught.
  14. Same with math.
  15. They often used books and playwrights written in Latin to
  16. practice their grammar.
  17. If students misbehaved, they'd be beaten on their bare buttocks
  18. with birch twigs.
  19. Ah, lot of Children had to drop out of school
  20. often a few years after a few years of education,
  21. they would have to work full time to help their
  22. families, who was educated.
  23. Always in girls ages 7 to 14 were educated In
  24. Tudor schools, it was mostly just nobility, gentry and some
  25. Your you're hungry, who were educated.
  26. Nobility is lords and kings and gentry is knights and
  27. Squires. Your memory is the middle class.
  28. The peasants never went to school.
  29. Schools were often off not of equal quality, either.
  30. Some took place in abandoned buildings, while others took place
  31. in formal school houses.
  32. Girls were usually kept home from schools.
  33. This was so they could learn the art of home
  34. keeping or house making.
  35. They would learn this from their mothers.
  36. They will learn how to clean, cook and care for
  37. younger Children.
  38. They would do this by learning from their younger siblings.
  39. University schools were very expensive at the time, and usually
  40. only 15 to 16 of the brightest boys would get
  41. to go.
  42. When the two universities at the time existed, Oxford and
  43. Cambridge, all classes were taught Onley in Latin.
  44. Horn books were like clipboards of today.
  45. They were wooden boards with handles, and they've used pieces
  46. of paper on them.
  47. The pieces of paper had the Lord's alphabet, the Lord's
  48. prayer and alphabet.
  49. They were.
  50. They were covered by a thin layer of cow's horn
  51. for protection.
  52. The board, through a shape like tennis table paddles horn
  53. books are also called Christ cross row.
  54. They were also usually hung from a child's, but