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TO WHAT EXTENT DID EDUCATION IMPROVE IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND? - Coggle…
TO WHAT EXTENT DID EDUCATION IMPROVE IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND?
UPPER CLASS CHILDREN
Boys trained to be 'gentlemen' - wealthy families - schools like Winchester, Eton and Harrow - taught in Latin - to succeed at Elizabethan Court
Education at HOME - home tutoring for children of noblemen
Boys - foreign and classical languages - archery - fencing - horse riding
Girls - music - dancing - needlework - horse riding - archery
MIDDLE CLASS CHILDREN
Grammar schools - parents though little education was useful - read,write and debate - lawyers - doctors - merchants
Petty schools and Dame schools - (4 - 7 years of age) - prepared them for Grammar schools - reading, writing and arithmetic - girls likely to go to Dame schools - ran by Dame
No improvement
limited education for girls - skills taught not employable - Little change for nobility - education always existed for them
Improvement
An increase in university and new collages set up at Oxford Uni - Jesus College
Improvement
Literacy levels for boys increased - 20% in 1530s to 30% by 1603
1570s - Grammar school in every town in England
charged fees but 42 new Grammar schools set up in 1560s
No improvement
Little change in attitudes towards female education
LOWER CLASS CHILDREN
School education - not important for lower classes - didn't need to read or write in daily life
Practical skills at work - learn skills while doing job
Improvement
some scholarships for lower class - e.g Christopher Marlowe- son of shoemaker - went to uni through scholarship
Some would learn to read and write as part of their job - only minority - majority worked in the fields
No improvement
Grammar school - too expensive - education seemed useless since they were just going to work in the fields
more important for poorer families that their children should help out in the workplace than that they should get an education.