CHAPTER XII

THE HUMANISTIC EDUCATION 99

The Passing of the Middle Ages. The Renaissance and the Revival of Learning. Causes of the Awakening in Italy. The Revival of the Latin Classics. The Development of Greek Scholarship. The Court Schools and Vittorino da Feltre. The Court School at Mantua. The Relation of the Court Schools to the Universities. Decadence of Italian Humanism. The Spread and Character of Humanism in the Northern Countries. The Development of Humanism in France. French Humanistic Educators and Institutions. Humanism in the German Universities. The Hieronymians and Their Schools. Erasmus, Leader in the Humanistic Education of the North. The Development of Gymnasiums: Melanchthon’s Work. Sturm at Strassburg. Formalism in the Gymnasiums. The Humanistic Movement in England: Greek at Oxford and Cambridge. Humanism at the Court Colet and His School at St. Paul’s. Humanism in the English Grammar Schools. English Grammar and Public Schools To-day. The Grammar Schools in the American Colonies. The Aim and Institutions of Humanistic Education.