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The English Grammar Schools to 1660 Their Curriculum and Practice

467 Pages

by Routledge

467 Pages

by Routledge

467 Pages

by Routledge

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First published in 1908, this important work on the history of education traces the development of teaching in English Grammar Schools from the invention of printing up to 1660. It is not a history of the theories of educational reformers as to what should or should not be taught, but a history of the actual practices of the schools, of their curricula and of the differentiated subjects of... Read more

1. The Ecclesiastical Organisation of Schools. 2. Religion in the Schools, 1500-1600. 3. The Teaching of the Bible. 4. The Catechism. 5. The Teaching of Logic and the Method of Disputations. 6. The Teaching of Manners and Morals. 7. Mediaeval Elementary Instruction. 8. The Elementary Schools, 1547-1660. 9. The A B C and the Horn-Book A B C. 10. The Teaching of Reading. 11. The Teaching of Writing. 12. The Teaching of Music in the 16^th and 17^th Centuries. 13. Medieval Grammar Schools and Schoolmasters. 14. The Early English Printed Grammars Including the Magdalen College School (Oxford) Group. 15. The Authorised Latin Grammar. 16. The Emendations of Lily’s Grammar. 17. The Grammar War. 18. The Practice of Grammar Teaching. 19. Latin Speaking. 20. Colloquies. 21. Translation of Authors. 22. The Higher Authors. 23. Vocabularies and Dictionaries. 24. The Making of Latins. 25. Letter-Writing. 26. Theme Writing at the Beginning of the 17^th Century. 27. Rhetoric. 28. The School Oration at the Time of the Commonwealth. 29. Verse-Making. 30. The Teaching of Greek. 31. The Text-Books for the Teaching of Greek. 32. Hebrew.