In sharp contrast, Renaissance humanist educators revived the study of the classics and stressed the importance of the individual. ... Early Renaissance Italian humanists such as Battista Guarino and Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini asserted that a man must study the humanities to acquire virtue and to attain enlightenment. ... Nearly 70 years after Erasmus wrote about the importance of studying the classics and the Latin language, Erasmus" ideas were challenged by Michel de Montaigne, a French essayist and politician. ... Some of the seeds of this transformation in education were found in the wo...

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