During the Middle Ages, the emphasis in education of the medieval scholastics was on theology and spiritual pursuits, and man was viewed as inherently unworthy as a result of the stain of original sin. ... Humanist educators rejected medieval scholasticism, a system of thought in which clerics applied reason to theological and philosophical questions. ... Each of these Renaissance humanists affirmed the key role of the classics in attaining knowledge. ... For example, later in the sixteenth century, Anne Higginson wrote a letter that reflected the view that women's education consisted ...

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