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Education In The Elizabethan Era Essay

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Getting an education today, allows people to learn vast amounts of information. Whether it be about the ocean or how something came to be, education allows us to know it all. However, it was not always like this. During the Elizabethan Era, to get a good education. The education system back then was also very different from our own. To be educated, you must have met their requirement, you must be able to surpass each level of education, or you could be a special exception to the scholars. To receive a normal education in the Elizabethan Era you had to meet the standards of the scholars. The scholars had many restrictions but the highest prioritized one was that you were a male. Boys were expected to be the ones to use everything they learned …show more content…

Teaching often started at home with parents teaching their kids basic table manners and where they stand in society. The young girls whom were taught at home were taught to obey the males and how to be a housewife. Once they reached the age of 5, kids moved to a petty school. A petty school is a school taught in a home by a well educated housewife. Here, the kids learned how to read, write, and how to behave themselves. At age 7, the boys moved up to Grammar School, unless you were born into nobility. Grammar School were often taught by Ushers until the boys reached age 10. At Grammar School they learned parts of speech, nouns, grammar and sentence structure, and how to translate English to Latin. In Grammar school the life was harsh, the boys had to be in class for six o’clock and did not get out until five. If they failed to follow classroom rules they got hit 50 times with a cane. After surpassing Grammar School, the boys proceed to a university at age 14. They had the choice between four universities. Oxford University or Cambridge University were the most popular choices. At the universities, the boys studied numerous subjects such as, Music, Philosophy, Geometry, and much more. After they finished all their chosen studies, the boys went out into the workforce. The Elizabethan school structure is just so much more complex and much more strict than our

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