M E D I E V A L E D U C A T I O N

During the Middle Ages, most people

were illiterate but not all. Upper class

children were educated when they were

pages. Among the poor, the better educated

priests might teach some children to read

and write. In many towns, there were

grammar schools where middle class boys

were educated. Boys worked long hours in

the grammar schools and discipline was

severe. Boys were beaten with rods or

birch twigs.

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