Tudor+Education

=__**Tudor Education**__ = = = =In the Tudor time boys were only allowed to go to school, because girls were meant to keep hold of the house when the men were out working. Poorer boys who could not afford to go to school, became apprentices and learnt a trade. Boys from rich families were educated at school where they had to speak in Latin. = = = =Seven and older children went to grammar school and after that some went to = =[|Oxford University]or [|Cambridge University]. They studied law and medicine. [|Royal Grammar School]in Guildford was set up by Edward VI and it still exists today. = = = =In schools the students wrote with a quill pen made out of a goosefeather and trimmed with a pen knife. As an inkwell they used a horn or a pot. Many of those who learnt to read never learnt to write. To read they did not have printed paper, so they used paper nailed on to a piece of wood. Of course the paper was handmade and written on by people with amazing hand writing. = = = = = = = =In the school they hade a chalk board at the front and desks that could open up. There was a massive chair at the front of the room where the teacher would sit. Usually the teacher would be a famous poet or writer. In those days boys got a beating for being rude or dishonest. The teachers where very strict, so the pupils never had second chances. The schools were usually very small, but had a enormous lamp(candle) in the middle of the room. [|Tudor schools were strict (only watch this if you are nine and over).] = = = =In the streets the games were: leapfrog (where you jumped over another person) or spinning hoop (where you span a hoop and kept it straight with a stick). The children where only allowed to go outside and play twice a day (morning and evening). =