HISTORY 3H03 Lecture 7: Lecture 7, 8 Renaissance Education
6 Feb 2017
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Desiderius erasmus- great humanist and well-known pedagogist of education in the 16th century image of scholars from the renaissance. Reason + education : wisdom, virtue, good decision-making. Virtuous life lay through the pursuit of wisdom and the acquisition of wisdom required the proper exercise of one"s reason. Reason was distinctive attribute of human nature, one that governed decision-making. By the 15th century, humanism was known as the new learning. Umanista= practitioner of the new learning (humanism came later from historians) Studia humanitatis= the material students were expected to study name for the new educational program (petrarch took from cicero) Textual criticism, knowledge of ancient greek and latin and other skills were applied in more diverse ways. Pointed to the use of the term umanista to denote practitioners of the new learning developed a name for expertise. Broad term of humanist includes scholars and artists who were engaged in the study and imitation of classical antiquity.
