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    Posted: 13-Dec-2007 at 13:03
Was there any kind of school in Europe before Christianity spread ? Any kind of teaching, manuscript copying etc ?
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Well Julius Caesar tells about the training that the Druids underwent. From what I have read this seemed to be systematized so one might make the argument that it was a kind of school. There was always teaching going on but I doubt it was the kind you are thinking of. The Greeks and Romans had educational institutions these were all before christianity. In fact one of these "schools" survived for nearly 1000 years. In terms of manuscript copying I have no idea.
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Originally posted by Siemowit

Was there any kind of school in Europe before Christianity spread ? Any kind of teaching, manuscript copying etc ?
 
Every city (greek or roman) as some school or schools, but some of the schools are in the teacher`s house others in a corner of a market.
 
Some schools are now what we can indentify as a type of university, because ofthe excelence of the teachers and fame of his wisdom: the most famous examples was the Academy and Lyceum (both in Athens).
 
But the children of the rich people learn in their house with a pedagogus (always of greek culture).
 
Normaly the cities dont bother in organize the teaching of their younger, their main objective is to asure that the teachers possesed a good moral, to not corrupt the children.
 
The fathers of the children choosed their school, and only the customs and uselfuness make them send their children to learn (above all the basics: reading, writing, arithemetic; and in greek cities, music and gimnastic), there was no law that says the school is mandatory.
 
Manuscript copying was well spread.
There was editorial houses with a great number of scribes and a well developede commerce of scrolls.
The scroll in papyrus was the cheapest of all, and the parchment the most expensive.
 
But the school children use tablets of ceramic or wood, in this case covered wit bee wax, to write and make their exercises, not scrolls (because of their price).
 
There are some public libraries and a great amount of family libraries between the most powerful families.
 
 
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