The Old Grammar Schools Foster Watson Books
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First published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Old Grammar Schools Foster Watson Books
Everything you wanted to know about the English grammar schools but were afraid to ask. This little known book is a masterpiece of scholarship. Written with no bias, as it was written in 1916 before the Looney Tunes show started,Written by Foster Watson, M.A., D.Lit., Professor Emeritus in the University College of Wales Aberystwyth, it covered the parochial and religious schools of the Middle Ages and their transformation during the English Renaissance. He covers the curriculum year by year, quarter by quarter. The curriculum was established by the King, not the church. I was surprised to learn that not only Latin and Greek were taught, but also Hebrew, in order to read the Old Testament in the original.
This is quite a scholarly work and many, if not most, of the names and persons and works will not be familiar to most persons, including me.
Like Corderius' "Colloquies", translated into Ennglish and then into Latin. Pupils are to read their Greek Testament after prayers beginning with the Gospel of St. John.
Terence strictly taught four mornings a week, "till the pupils begin to relish him." Ovid's "Metamorphoses" "Pupils are to translate four passages into Latin every night out of "Wit's Commonwealth". Rhetoric. Orations out of Livy. Caesar's "Commentaries", Erasmus' "Colloquies". Virgil. Aesop's Fables in Greek Plutarch, Pliny Description of things natural and artificial. Witty sentences in "Golden Grove".
"To learn Hebrew three days a week Textbook: "Buxtorf's Grammar". Read Hesiod, Homer Pindar and Lyconphron. Read Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes. Read Horace, Juvenal, Seneca's Tragedies and Plautus.
Cicero's "Orations" Exercises for oratory should be to make themes, orations, and declamations, in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and for poetry. to make verses upon such themes as are appointred every week.
Leading works of reference on the professional subjects of the theologian, physician, and lawyer.
There is a lot more, but I'll stop there. Obviously, totally unlike the grammar/elementay schools today.
This, again, is a work of intense scholarship, and I recommend it for anyone who is interested in the English grammar school. I will not demure. This book will destroy any anti-Strat or Oxfordian claim that the grammar school could not teach Shakespeare what he needed to write plays.
"Warsick grammar schools...Gilds had their priests who taught the children of members and eventually came to maintain grammar schools, one of the best known (though a relatively late Gild Grammar School) was that of the Gild of the Holy Cross at Stratford-on-Avon. The poperty of the Gild was first confiscated by Henry VIII, and then in 1552 it was bought back from Edward VI [Henry's son].
"It is supposed that Shakespeare attended as a pupil the reconstituted school, from 1571 when he reached seven years of age." Entrance requirements were that students must know how to read and write English.
From the Preface: "Hence replacing the "Grammar" school by modern Secondary Schools and merely substituting the vernacular, sciences, mathematics and modern languages for the old classics, still leaves the education question to be determined What is the intensve background of ideal to which these subjects are to relate themselves?"
This is an essential book for anyone interested in Shakespeare's education and of the development of the old English grammar school in general.
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Everything you wanted to know about the English grammar schools but were afraid to ask. This little known book is a masterpiece of scholarship. Written with no bias, as it was written in 1916 before the Looney Tunes show started,
Written by Foster Watson, M.A., D.Lit., Professor Emeritus in the University College of Wales Aberystwyth, it covered the parochial and religious schools of the Middle Ages and their transformation during the English Renaissance. He covers the curriculum year by year, quarter by quarter. The curriculum was established by the King, not the church. I was surprised to learn that not only Latin and Greek were taught, but also Hebrew, in order to read the Old Testament in the original.
This is quite a scholarly work and many, if not most, of the names and persons and works will not be familiar to most persons, including me.
Like Corderius' "Colloquies", translated into Ennglish and then into Latin. Pupils are to read their Greek Testament after prayers beginning with the Gospel of St. John.
Terence strictly taught four mornings a week, "till the pupils begin to relish him." Ovid's "Metamorphoses" "Pupils are to translate four passages into Latin every night out of "Wit's Commonwealth". Rhetoric. Orations out of Livy. Caesar's "Commentaries", Erasmus' "Colloquies". Virgil. Aesop's Fables in Greek Plutarch, Pliny Description of things natural and artificial. Witty sentences in "Golden Grove".
"To learn Hebrew three days a week Textbook "Buxtorf's Grammar". Read Hesiod, Homer Pindar and Lyconphron. Read Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes. Read Horace, Juvenal, Seneca's Tragedies and Plautus.
Cicero's "Orations" Exercises for oratory should be to make themes, orations, and declamations, in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and for poetry. to make verses upon such themes as are appointred every week.
Leading works of reference on the professional subjects of the theologian, physician, and lawyer.
There is a lot more, but I'll stop there. Obviously, totally unlike the grammar/elementay schools today.
This, again, is a work of intense scholarship, and I recommend it for anyone who is interested in the English grammar school. I will not demure. This book will destroy any anti-Strat or Oxfordian claim that the grammar school could not teach Shakespeare what he needed to write plays.
"Warsick grammar schools...Gilds had their priests who taught the children of members and eventually came to maintain grammar schools, one of the best known (though a relatively late Gild Grammar School) was that of the Gild of the Holy Cross at Stratford-on-Avon. The poperty of the Gild was first confiscated by Henry VIII, and then in 1552 it was bought back from Edward VI [Henry's son].
"It is supposed that Shakespeare attended as a pupil the reconstituted school, from 1571 when he reached seven years of age." Entrance requirements were that students must know how to read and write English.
From the Preface "Hence replacing the "Grammar" school by modern Secondary Schools and merely substituting the vernacular, sciences, mathematics and modern languages for the old classics, still leaves the education question to be determined What is the intensve background of ideal to which these subjects are to relate themselves?"
This is an essential book for anyone interested in Shakespeare's education and of the development of the old English grammar school in general.
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