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Episode 95: Old School and New School

The History of English Podcast

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Education in Church Schools

This chapter explores the education system in Church schools during the late Roman period. It discusses the two types of education, Servial Arts and Liberal Arts, curriculum, limited knowledge compared to modern standards, focus on language, origins of logic, connections between logic, rhetoric, and grammar, grammar schools, the etymology of the word 'grammar' and its connection to magic, and the origins and development of the word 'spell'.

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