... beliefs. Their combination of philosophy and theology is known as scholasticism. Education of the Middle Ages Education, as we know it today, did not exist in the middle Ages. Illiteracy was dominant among the population. Scribes were the exception to the rule. Churches were the main source of knowledge and schooling. The medieval Christian curriculum focus was on study. The medieval scholars ... used classical learning for Christian purposes. Judaism rejected the world's standards of the pagan culture and education. The church went from mostly Hebrew to mostly Gentile. Christianity embr...

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... Mendelssohn In 1729, a baby was born in the Jewish ghetto in Dessau, Germany. He was born into a Germany of casual intolerance and Jewish isolation. Jewish children learned only enough to study Talmud and speak Yiddish, and those Jews in mainstream Germany faced limitations and prejudice at every turn. They could not read German or ancient Hebrew or work in mathematics because ... and eating at Frankel's yeshiva, copying the occasional manuscript for money. During this time he learned German, Hebrew, and some French, English, Italian, Latin, and Greek, as well as math, philosophy, and l...

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