Education in the Elizabethan Era

Elizabethan Era Education

By Hattie, Emira, Yuan, Sophia

Schools

Girls vs Boys Education

Universities vs Apprentices

Instead of Elementary, Middle, and High School, boys in the Elizabethan Era engaged in Petty (or Dame) School, Grammar School, and then (for the wealthy) a University.

("The Elizabethan Age." & "Social Structure.")

• Boys of all social classes were expected to receive an education.
• Children of nobility were taught by private tutors.("Elizabethan Education.")
• Generally, only girls belonging to wealthy or noble families obtained any schooling. ("The Elizabethan Age.")

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Cambridge and Oxford were the most popular choices.

•The University Faculty of the Arts

•The University Faculty of Liberal Arts

•The University Faculty of Theology

•The University Faculty of Medicine

•University Faculty of Law

Most boys began an apprenticeship after grammar school because they could not afford to attend a university.

Petty Schools

Grammar Schools

The following lessons would be taught at “Petty School” or “Dame School”, both equivalent to a elementary school setting.

• read and write English

• learn the catechism

• lessons in behavior

Intended for 5yrs-7yrs

Run for a small fee by a local, well-educated housewife.

("Elizabethan Education." & "Elizabethan Era Daily Life: Food, Education, Marriage, Family, Fashion.")

Petty School. Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia. Web. 17 Oct. 2010. [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/‌wiki/‌File:Dame_School.jpeg#globalusage]].

("Elizabethan Education.")

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The following subjects were taught to males attending Grammar School, the equivalent to a combination of middle and high school.

“Younger Boys”

• parts of speech

• the rules of grammar and sentence construction

• English-Latin and Latin-English translations

"Older Boys"

• Latin to English translations

• Literature including the works of the great classical authors and dramatists, such as Ovid, Plautus, Horace, Virgil, Cicero and Seneca

• Occasionally the study of Greek

• Religious education continued

• Arithmetic

Intended for 7yrs-14yrs

Boys 7yrs-10yrs were taught by Ushers. (Junior master or senior pupils)

Traveling Scrivener usually taught handwriting for a few weeks out of the year.

("Elizabethan Education." )

A Typical Female Education

Smirth, C J. Lichfield Grammar School. 1835. Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia. Web. 17 Oct. 2010. <http://commons.wikimedia.org/‌wiki/‌File:Lichfield_Grammar_School.jpg>.

The few who received an education were taught:

• chastity
• skills of house-wifery.
• learn reading
• writing
• keeping accounts
• managing a household and estate.
• music
• dancing

("The Elizabethan Age.")

Text Books

http://www.elizabethanenglandlife.com/england-education-in-elizabethan-period.html

The Horn-Book

• most used tudor text book

Lily’s Latin Grammar

• “most important tool used in the Grammar schools”

English Grammar: Lily. N.d. Brick Row, San Francisco. "The Brick Row Bookshop" Web. 19 Jan. 2015. <http://www.brickrow.com/cgi-bin/brickrow/23175>.

Hornbook. 1630. London, n.p.

("Elizabethan Education." & "Lily's Grammar.")

Shakespeare's Education

William Shakespeare." 2012. FamousAuthors.org 19 January, http://www.famousauthors.org/william-shakespeare

Compared to Today...

• Only a public school education.
• Shakespeare most likely attending King Edward VI Grammar School in Stratford-upon-Avon
• The school was named after Queen Elizabeth's brother
• He studied classical authors
• Taught according to catholic beliefs
• Shakespeare was pulled out of school at age 14 and didn't return for higher education

• Public schools are free
• Schools are still separated in age but not gender
• Percentage of people who achieve higher education
• Times, teachers, subjects, punishments

("The Education Of William Shakespeare")

Bibliography

GAME TIME

Modern Day

TEAM 1

Elizabethan Style

Aut neca aut necare

agere sequitur credere

This is a common modern day saying. Translate it from Latin to English without the use of a cellphone. You have 1 minute. Failure to do so will result in severe punishments.

TEAM 2

aurum potestas est

"Elizabethan Education." Elizabethan Education. Linda Alchin, 16 May 2012. Web.

12 Jan. 2015.

"Elizabethan Education." Elizabethan Education. Linda Alchin, June 2014. Web. 12

Jan.2015.

"Internet Shakespeare Editions." Education. University of Victoria, n.d. Web. 15 Jan.

2015.

"Social Structure." Social Structure. J.P.SOMMERVILLE, n.d. Web. 11 Jan. 2015.

"The Elizabethan Age." The Elizabethan Age. National Endowment For The Arts, n.d.

Web. 11 Jan. 2015.