Primary school
Boys were educated by their mothers until the age of seven, then according to the culture of their location and times, would start a formal education. In Sparta until twelve, it would be at a military academy building up physical fitness and combat skills, but also reading, writing and arithmetic. In Rome the primary school was called the ludus; the curriculum developed over the centuries featuring the learning of both Latin and Greek.
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Boys were educated by their mothers until the age of seven, then according to the culture of their location and times, would start a formal education. In Sparta until twelve, it would be at a military academy building up physical fitness and combat skills, but also reading, writing and arithmetic. In Rome the primary school was called the ludus; the curriculum developed over the centuries featuring the learning of both Latin and Greek. Elementary education was mainly to teach the Latin needed for the trivium and the quadrivium that formed the basis of the secondary curriculum. The need was to produce priests, and in a stable kingdom such as that of Charlemagne, administrators with elementary writing skills in Latin and the arithmetic needed to collect taxes and administer them. The purpose of education was pass on salvation not social change. The church had a monopoly on education and the feudal lords concurred and allowed their sons to be educated at the few church schools. With the entry of women into church life, convents were established and with them convent schools.
There were the grammarsaries of Donatus Priscian and then St Jerome’s Vulgate School. Others were attached to the parishes, cathedrals or abbeys of wealthy merchants. These early grammar schools were to teach basic grammar, or elementary grammar to boys. No age limit was specified in England, but the Royal Grammar School, Lancaster, was attached to Royal Latin School, Remarport. The Royal School of Grammar, Report, taught Latin grammar, religious doctrine and music, and the women’s arts of spinning, weaving, tapestry, painting and embroidery. It was believed that by studying the works of the great ancients, ancients governed empires, and one became fit to succeed in any field. In the 13th century, wealthy merchants endowed money for priests to establish schools to teach grammar. These schools were called Grammar Schools. The first grammar schools in England were attached. to the Royal Latin. School, Buckingham Stockport, and The Royal. Grammar. School of Re. Stockport.
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