1. Renaissance Education
Nearly 70 years after Erasmus wrote about the importance of studying the classics and the Latin language, Erasmus" ideas were challenged by Michel de Montaigne, a French essayist and politician. ... Instead, he believed that schools should use those texts which had the "soundest and truest values" rather than those in the best Greek and Latin. ... An English schoolmaster named John Brisley and a Bohemian educational reformer named John Amos Comenius both despaired that the students at the lower levels of education could only write Latin and had little understanding of the meaning of the text...
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