QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS
1. Show the large scope of Grammar, as outlined by Guarino (135).
2. How generally was his dictum that a knowledge of Latin and Greek were essential for a well-educated gentleman (135) accepted?
3. Compare the course of study in Sturm's school (137) with that at Bordeaux (136), and with that at Eton (144) a little later.
4. From Ascham's statements (139), what do you infer as to the reception of the new learning at the English court?
5. Show how Colet (138 a) and William Sevenoaks (141) both aimed to provide for real teachers, specialized for the service, and not for teaching as an adjunct to priestly duties. What was the significance of these provisions?
6. Show that Colet (138 b) desired to train leaders, rather than followers.
7. Show that he clearly provided (138 c) for a humanistic school of the reformed type.
8. Characterize Colet's Introduction to Lily's Grammar (140).
9. What was the educational significance of such a bequest as that of William Sevenoaks (141)?
10. What did the founding of a chantry grammar school (142), instead of a song school, indicate as to the progress of education?
11. Would the action taken by the authorities of the City of Sandwich (143) indicate that the humanistic grammar school had taken a deep hold on English thought, or not? The same with reference to the course given in a small English country grammar school, as described by Martindale (145)?
12. Just what does the instruction described as given by Campion (146) indicate?