... purposes and exemplified the Renaissance values of wisdom, morality, and virtue. At the beginning of the Renaissance, humanist educators revived the study of the classics and humanities to help students attain salvation. Humanist educators rejected medieval scholasticism, a system of thought in which clerics applied reason to theological and philosophical questions. Humanists believed that the study of humanities ... ." Each of these Renaissance humanists affirmed the key role of the classics in attaining knowledge. Despite this emphasis on the pagan classics, a Renaissance education was ...

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