ABSTRACT
The educational traditions of the Middle Ages continued into the Renaissance. Renaissance and Enlightenment are modern labels with the former introduced by Jacob Burckhardt in his Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy published in 1860. The home is the beginning of laying the foundations of the moral basis of life up until the age of seven, after which he encourages fathers to educate their sons. Modernity is an ongoing creative process that even today has not reached completion.’ The Renaissance was indeed an attempt to look back and revive the best of the ancient civilisations of Greece and Rome and marked the long transition from medieval to modern attitudes. A number of thinkers of the early modern period that led up to the Enlightenment period helped shape many of the features of modernity and understanding of character. The child’s character would therefore be moulded by his or her life experiences.
