Bede and education
Calvin B. Kendall|Scott DeGregorio
The Venerable Bede occupies a pivotal place and moment in the history of Western education. By seventh century public schools no longer existed Europe; only scattered remnants liberal aristocratic educational system Roman empire remained northern Italy Spain, none at all Gaul Britain. Bede's lifetime coincides with revival education beginnings new medieval Christian culture West. monastery Wearmouth-Jarrow is nodal point intellectual force that link civilization ancient world Carolingian renaissance, which fuelled its turn renaissances twelfth fifteenth sixteenth centuries. In Britain, old had disappeared without leaving trace. Missionaries from continent Ireland, beginning Gregorian mission under Augustine 597, carried out their work conversion most effectively through establishment monasteries. Monks to be trained for vocation; monastic followed inevitably. Irish models scholarship exerted influence throughout century. There was formal division curriculum into subjects along lines seven arts late classical antiquity. Pupils learned what they needed know by kind apprenticeship system.
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