Medium description: | Sir Thomas Elyot's 'The boke named the Gouernour' printed in London by the royal printer, Thomas Berthelet (Cowan, 2008). Considered (Baugh & Cable, 1993; Cowan, 2008) as the first book solely on education printed in English.
Shared Erasmus's views, in his De Pueris Instituendis, that the poor quality of teaching was in part down to the fact that teachers were unpaid and therefore had a low status in society and attracted the wrong type of person (Ridley, 1988).
Also outlined a curriculum for the schooling of upper class children including reading, hunting, dancing and music. |