The Renaissance Era

During the Renaissance era education was being highly encouraged. The people were trying to become a more successful community. Although they were encouraged to study and be successful they do acknowledge that not everyone was born to be a scholar. But for whom were they became the teachers and the writers to help the new scholars gain their knowledge. By this they will help future generations and it will be an ongoing cycle. To more extent, the Renaissance era overall just wanted to be successful among one another. As Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini stated, “... Prince who cannot read the lessons of history is helpless prey..” meaning how is the an individual expected to rule when not even themselves have some sort of knowledge. The hard part would be to “enlighten” the minds of the first people. After that the most education would teach the next and so on so forth. Just like everything not a lot of teens were interested in school. “..Little sense of the meaning and trus use of learning..”(John Brisley), Brisley claims
From the School Ordinances of Wurttemberg, wanted for a pastor to at least go once every six months so that their children would not have fear of God. Not only do they just care about the academic learning but they also want the children to have a decent understanding on religious things and views. Although, they do understand that not everyone was born to be a scholar and that will succeed in the academics. The goal is not to be the smartest rather than to be the one who triess the hardest. Even though they encouraged knowledge they did not want so many schools to be made and opened. In the letter to the Parlement of Dijon, he states, “.. literature is appropriate only to a small majority of men” , meaning that schools should be opened for these who really have interest so they could get the most out of