A student's history of educationGraves, Frank Pierrepont
History
A student's history of education
Graves, Frank Pierrepont
Education -- History
=French Humanistic Educators and Institutions.=--Under the protection
of Francis, many prominent humanistic scholars and educators, like
Budæus (1468-1540), appeared, classical manuscripts were collected,
Greek and Latin authors were translated, treatises on humanistic
education were produced, and the College of France, with chairs of
Greek, Hebrew, and Latin, was established (1530). Humanism was also
introduced into various colleges in Paris and Bordeaux by such scholars
and practical teachers as Corderius (1479-1564) and Ramus (1515-1572),
and many text-books and editions of the classics were published. Soon
most of the schools of France responded to the new training. It would
hardly be possible to consider many of them, but a brief description
of the course and administration in vogue at the College of Guyenne,
taken from an account of one of its teachers, may prove illuminating.
This college contained ten classes in secondary work, and two years
more in philosophy, which partially overlapped the faculty of arts in
the university. Latin and religion were taught throughout the secondary
school, and Greek, mathematics, rhetoric, and declamation could be
taken in the last three or four classes. The pupils were introduced
to the rudiments of Latin through the vernacular, and developmental
methods and enlivening disputations were used. Probably the general
conditions here were typical of the French humanistic schools
everywhere during the sixteenth century.
[Sidenote: Erfurt and other existing universities.]
[Sidenote: New universities.]
=Humanism in the German Universities.=--Before humanism was well
established in France, however, it had also spread through the
Teutonic countries. By the end of the sixteenth century the German
universities had begun to adopt the new learning. In 1494 Erfurt
established a professorship of Poetry and Eloquence, which covered the
field of classic literature, and lectures on humanistic subjects were
before long given in Leipzig, Heidelberg, Tübingen, Ingoldstadt, and
Vienna. Likewise, a number of new universities, Wittenberg, Marburg,
Königsberg, and Jena, were started upon a humanistic basis, and before
the middle of the sixteenth century humanism prevailed in practically
all of the German universities.
[Sidenote: At first instruction only in Bible and vernacular,]
[Sidenote: but humanism added.]
[Sidenote: Wessel, Agricola, Reuchlin,]
[Sidenote: and]
[Sidenote: Wimpfeling.]
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