Education in Medieval Europe

• Most schooling took place in monasteries, convents, and cathedrals.  Much time was spent memorizing prayers and passages form the Bible in Latin.
• Aquinas was an Italian scholar of philosophy and theology.  He tried to bring together ancient philosophical ideas about reason and medieval theological beliefs about faith.

      During the Middles Ages, most schooling took place in monasteries, convents, and cathedrals.  The clergy were the people most likely to be educated.  Most of the students in church schools were sons of nobles who were studying for careers in the clergy.  Starting in the 1200s, cathedral schools gave rise to universities.  Students studied latin grammar and rhetoric, logic, geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, and music.  Books were hand copied and rare, so teachers often read to students.