... 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 was ... in attaining knowledge. Despite this emphasis on the pagan classics, a Renaissance education was designed to help students acquire knowledge so that they could attain sa...

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... doctrines, and values of a particular field or profession, then they should not have to settle for a vocational school, without the traditional amenities of a college or university campus. Students should be able to attend colleges and universities that can fulfill their expectations of vocational study, without the systems forcing the fragmented fields of study, garbled educational purposes and trivialized ... an individualized and isolated course of study, systems are now advocating standardized liberal studies, to obtain the concept, as Toqueville described as, "public virtue". A peac...

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