Starting in the 14th century, the Renaissance period was a catalyst for a change in 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." ... As a chart detailing the increase in enrollment of Justices of the Peace in universities in England from the early Renaissance to the late Renaissance shows, there was more of an emphasis on acquiring knowledge for practical purposes in the late Renaiss...

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