8-5Education

**Education in Elizabethan England**
//Answer prepared by Nicole H//

Education in Elizabethan England was hardly adequate. It was limited depending on your gender,race, and even your wealth. As said in __What every schoolboy knows__ by Maggi Ross there were different levels of school as there are now,but their elementary school was often called petty school. The real focus of petty school was to get to the next level which was grammar school. Grammar school is like our modern day high school. The main focus of grammar school was to get you ready for a University. All Universities' classes were conducted in latin, always it did not matter what the class was. If you were rich enough you could either be home tutored or go to a private school. The young duke of Essex used the followed this schedule. These were his everyday classes and what he needed to learn to continue his title successfully. This is just used as an example of what classes they needed to study. 7:00-7:30-dancing 7:30-8:00 breakfast 8:00-9:00-french 9:00-10:00-latin 10:00-10:30-writing drawing prayers recreation dinner 1:00-2:00 cosmography 2:00-3:00-latin 3:00-4:00-french 4:00-4:30 writing 4:30-5:30 prayers, recreation, supper As you can see they were not taught the same things as we are. They were educated in dance, prayer, latin, and drawing on a regular basis. These were skills mandatory for that time period. One huge difference in their education was, they were not educated in spelling. They would write it in any way they wanted, and no one cared,because they wrote it just as it sounded. Very often did you'd see a man write his name in many different ways. For example, My name is usually spelled Nicole Christine Harris it was not uncommon for me to have spelled my name all these different ways Nikol Christene Haris, Nikkol Christien Hairris, Nicol Christiene Harres. But who cares? A Lord or Lady with only one name is boring anyways, isn't it ? "According to Spelling and pronunciation of Shakespeare's name" by David Kathman. Shakespeare himself spelled his name in many different ways he spelled it like shakspere, shakspear,shakespear,and schakspeare wow! Some of those aren't even close to being spelled like each other. One thing that is known, but that is weird, is that he never spelled his name in the way that is excepted now, Shakespeare. Another big difference in they're schooling from now is, not everyone went to school. Often it was only the middle and upper class. Women also did not go to school. They were considered stupid and not able to retain information they were not the equal of men. If their family was rich enough and if her father wished she could get a private education at home taught by a tutor who was usually a priest. As you can see the means and the things taught in the Elizabethan era were very different from what is taught in schools today.

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this is what we believe a teacher and a classroom would have looked like in Elizabethan England.