Starting in the 14th century, the Renaissance period was a catalyst for a change in education. During the Middle Ages, the emphasis in ... 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 ... about the importance of studying the classics and the Latin language, Erasmus" ide...

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