-
The country eventually had a three-tier system of education similar to that of other Roman provinces: 'elementary learning (reading, writing, and arithmetic), grammar (correct composition and the study of literary texts), and rhetoric (the theory and practice of oratory)'
-
Christians in Roman Britain organised their own system of education, preferring to follow the traditional practice of studying pagan Latin literature, 'using the knowledge it gave them to read the Bible and other religious works in Latin
-
He and his successors established two types of school: the grammar school to teach Latin to English priests, and the song school where the 'sons of gentlefolk' were trained to sing in cathedral choirs.
Thus the earliest schools in England - at least, those we know anything about - date from the arrival of St Augustine and Christianity around the end of the sixth century. -
the very first grammar school was established at Canterbury in 598 by King Ethelbert,
-
Augustine's concept of education derived from the Roman and Hellenistic schools of rhetoric.It comprised the seven liberal arts and sciences: the trivium, or three basic subjects, were grammar, rhetoric and logic; while the more advanced quadrivium consisted of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The task of the church was to adapt these subjects to Christian use. They were regarded as a preparation for the study of theology, law and medicine.
-
He notes that at Canterbury Theodore and Hadrian taught 'the rules of metric, astronomy and the computus as well as the works of the saints' (quoted in Williams 1961:129) and speaks of Tobias, Bishop of Rochester, who died in 726, as being 'a most learned man, for he was a pupil of Theodore and Hadrian, and so together with a knowledge of literature, ecclesiastical and general, Greek and Latin were as familiar to him as his native tongue'
-
Alcuin's school taught 'grammar, rhetoric, law, poetry, astronomy, natural history, arithmetic, geometry, music, and the Scriptures' By the end of the eighth century there were twenty or so episcopal and monastic schools and 'there can be no doubt that their sole purpose was to train monks and priests'
-
The development of education in the England was interrupted by the long series of Viking invasions which began around 866. The Norsemen were pagans who 'loved war and women, wassail and song, pillage and slaughter' and their raids caused 'immense havoc' . 'In two generations, monasticism and an educated clergy disappeared'
-
He translated Pope Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care from Latin into English and sent a copy to every cathedral in his kingdom. He endeavoured to arrest the decline in learning in three ways. First, he attempted to revive monasticism, founding a monastery for men at Athelney and one for women at Shaftesbury. Second, he developed education in the royal household. And third, he encouraged writing and reading in English as well as, or instead of, Latin.
-
Dunstan who inspired a 'renaissance of education, Latin scholarship, vernacular literature and the visual arts'Ælfric, who was schoolmaster at Cerne in the 990s, wrote three educational works: the Anglo-Latin Grammar, Glossary and Colloquy (Dialogue).
-
Around 960 King Edgar decreed that priests were expected to teach religion and crafts as a pastoral duty, and thirty years later priests were urged to maintain village schools and teach young boys without charging fees.
-
Canute became king of England.whenever he went to any famous monastery or borough he sent there at his own expense boys to be taught for the clerical or monastic order, not only those whom he found among freemen but also the cleverer of the poor, and with his own hand in kingly munificence he also in his progress made some free
-
Norman kings, bishops, and lay magnates became involved in founding or reorganising cathedrals, minsters, and monasteries in England, with consequences for the teaching that went on in such places The second effect was legal and documentary:
Anglo-Saxon England had long known the charter, a grant of lands or privileges made by a king, bishop, or nobleman to clergy or laity.
From around 1100, some of these charters 'indicate a more public kind of education'