Essay On Renaissance Dbq

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Ha Nguyen
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Mrs. Broffman DBQ The Renaissance, which is a french word for “
“, had begun to take way in the fourteenth century, Europe, where it influence were still spreading until the late sixteenth century. Study of the classicals, mostly the Greco-Romans, were increasingly popular among the people of Europe; humanism was then starting to take shape. In the Renaissance the values and purposes of education was emphasized by humanists, who wants to use it to improve society, economic increased, and above all, to be able to restore religious beliefs. Northern humanists, for example, decided the best way to restore the Christian faith was to use social reform, which was taken from Greco-Roman , and try to base it on the Christian …show more content…

In the Letter to the Parlement of Dijon, the individual believes that by having too many schools will weaken the body and would encourage people to be less contempt for all other occupations (Doc 7). Although this particular individual may think by having too many schools are bad, they still believe that schools are useful in a civilized society. With the emphasis on the study of the classics, occupations like farmers, merchants, and other hard working bodies are decreasing because many people during the Renaissance were interested in individuals who had risen above their background to become brilliant and successful. Many churches and schools, like the School Ordinances of Wurttemberg, in Germany,try to convince people to send their children to schools to be able to teach them fear God and to be able to learn how to be disciplined (Doc 4). Education in the Renaissance has been used to try and restore the religious beliefs many people had lost. In Aeneas Piccolomini, who would later become pope, expressed his opinions about how schools only focus on grammar, rhetoric, and geometry, and how it doesn’t teach people how to be prepared in life (Doc 1). Like the English schoolmaster, John Brinsley, explained, the educational system only cares about the study of the classes and even with all the other things they have learned, nothing would be able to help them in the real world (Doc 6). Many people in the Renaissance do believe that studying the classics will help improve others life, but the minority would disagree and claim that it will not do anything that would help in the real

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