grammar school

educational system
Also known as: Latin school

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ancient Rome

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    In education: Higher education

    …other hand, many schools of grammar or rhetoric acquired the character of public institutions supported (as in the Hellenic world) either by private foundations or by a municipal budget. In effect, it was always the city that was responsible for education. The liberal central government of the high empire, anxious…

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Comenius

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    In education: The pedagogy of Comenius

    …this school would come the grammar school (or Latin school), which the pupils would attend during their youth (13–18) and which would exist in every town of every district. Through progressive courses in language and the exact sciences, the young people would be brought to a deeper understanding of things.…

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Francke

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    In education: August Hermann Francke

    The grammar school had lessons in reading, writing, basic mathematics, catechism, the Holy Scriptures, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, optionally another Oriental language, geography, history, mathematics (including astronomy and geometry), botany, zoology, mineralogy, anatomy, and theology,

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Germany

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    In education: Luther and the German Reformation

    He founded a grammar school in Strassburg (now Strasbourg, France) that became a model for German schools. Sturm believed that methods of instruction in elementary schools and, to some degree, in secondary schools should be different from those in the institutes of higher education. Not much autonomy was…

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medieval Europe

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    In education: Lay education and the lower schools

    …western Europe, there were soon grammar schools of some type available for boys. Not only were there grammar schools at cathedrals and collegiate churches, but many others were founded in connection with chantries and craft and merchant guilds and a few in connection with hospitals. It has been estimated, for…

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Nova Scotia

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    In education: Newfoundland and the Maritime Provinces.

    …attempts were the two Latin grammar schools founded in 1788 and 1789 at Windsor and Halifax, Nova Scotia. The former became associated with King’s College, established in Windsor at the same time. Thomas McCulloch’s Academy at Pictou, Nova Scotia, and the College of New Brunswick at Fredericton, both founded around…

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