1. Renaissance Education
These Italian humanist views were echoed by northern Christian humanists such as Desiderus Erasmus who wrote in his book On the Art of Learning that students should study the classics because "the whole of attainable knowledge lies therein." ... Reflecting the northern Christian humanist perspective, German school ordinances from this period instructed that a child should learn the liberal arts but tempered with the fear of God and learning virtue and discipline which will be useful in life, as well as for attaining salvation. ... Instead, he believed that schools should use those texts which...
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