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Education in Medieval and Tudor Times
Correct! That was usually when they started getting their adult teeth and it was also when boys were breeched, i..e moved from skirts to hose and breeches.
Wrong! It was at the age of 7. That was usually when they started getting their adult teeth and it was also when boys were breeched, i..e moved from skirts to hose and breeches.
Correct! That quotation is from his treatise "The Scholemaster". Ascham was a tutor to Elizabeth I when she was a child.
Wrong! It was Roger Ascham, former tutor of Elizabeth I, and the quotation is from his treatise "The Scholemaster".
Correct! He compared it to “the policie of a wyse and counnynge gardener” who wants to grow “a fyne and preciouse herbe”.
Wrong! He compared it to “the policie of a wyse and counnynge gardener” who wants to grow “a fyne and preciouse herbe”
Correct!
Wrong! It was good manners.
Correct! Oxford and Cambridge.
Wrong! There were two: Oxford and Cambridge.
Correct!
Wrong! It was the Lord's Prayer, or Pater Noster.
Correct! And s/he would end it with "Amen".
Wrong! S/he did the sign of a cross and s/he would end the alphabet with "Amen".
Correct! The tablet was called a horn book.
Wrong! It was animal horn. The tablet was called a horn book.
Correct! He wrote "Just as the sheet on which the ABC taught to children is fixed with four nails to a board, so the flesh or skin of Christ was stretched out on the cross."
Wrong! He viewed it as an illustration of the crucifixion of Christ.
Correct! A primer was a first reading book.
Wrong! He published a primer.
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