... as skilled with the sword and horse. After challenging the medieval scholastic focus on theology, the values and purposes of a Renaissance education transformed over time from educating a virtuous, well rounded, upper class Renaissance man who was learned in the classics and humanities to educating a man who attained knowledge for practical purposes and exemplified the Renaissance values of wisdom, morality, and virtue ... only a small percentage of men because farmers, soldiers, merchants, and laborers have no need to learn the classics and fill their minds with intellectual pursuits. ...

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