Renaissance Education
Education has always been perceived as a means of achieving wisdom even in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It is believed that the embryos of the European educational systems were developed from the medieval monasteries (Plitz, 1981: 14). However, the cathedral schools soon outstripped the monasteries as a centre of learning (Piltz, 1981: 49). This progressive transfer of culture from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance marked the beginning of secularization. This essay will discuss the differences in practice and principles of the medieval and Renaissance education in terms of its educational approach, curriculum, foundation purposes and its conduct. It will also distinguish the different world-views of the two forms of education and conclude by asserting the inevitable differences of their distinctive ideas. In the Middle Ages, the Church had always taken a lead in the foundation of schools. They had charged of all the systemic education, which existed insofar (Powicke, 1935: 86). They were also responsible and clear about the kind of guidance in which peasantry should receive (Powicke, 1935: 82). The churches also “had a special focus on preaching”(Raymond of Penafort Extracts), which emphasized on the value of missions a
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