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This 3 page paper discusses what education was like in the Elizabethan era. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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a typical young man of the time, his experience will serve as an example that can be extrapolated to others. Both his parents were illiterate, but his father, John Shakespeare
was an Alderman, so his children were given a free education (Elizabethan education, 2005). Its fair to assume that John took advantage of this privilege, but the boy may not
have finished his schooling, since his first biographer, Nicholas Rowe, wrote that he was wanted at home, and so had to leave school (Elizabethan education, 2005). It is probable that
he attended "King Edward IV Grammar School and received an education in Stratford from the age of 7 in 1571 and left school and formal education when he was fourteen
in 1578" (Elizabethan education, 2005). Its important to understand that "a schools curriculum and the Elizabethan education of children was dictated by the ruling monarch of the time which would
... also reflect the religion of that particular King or Queen" (Elizabethan education, 2005). Since England during this time "flip-flopped" between Catholicism and Protestantism, the curricula would have changed repeatedly
as well (Elizabethan education, 2005). Elizabethan education was geared toward boys, who went to a "Petty School" from ages five to seven, which was an elementary school (Elizabethan education,
2005). Classes werent held in a school, but in the teachers home and the word "petty" is most likely derived from the French "petit," (small), indicating the size
of the school (Elizabethan education, 2005). The subjects covered would have been learning to read and write English; learning the catechism; and learning behavior (Elizabethan education, 2005). The catechism was
"an Elizabethan book detailing the details of the Christian Faith" (Elizabethan education, 2005). Children were expected to know much of it by heart (Elizabethan education, 2005). "The basic principles of
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