ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how the curriculum of humanistic education was systematised by John Sturm, of Strasburg, into a form which has lasted as the pattern of secondary education down to our own generation. The study of the humanities, that is, of the Greek classics in the original, is best fixed by the date of the conquest of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453. The education of the monastery was strongly contrasted with that of the castle, and these were again distinct from the education of the towns. The Benedictines were, in education, the Jesuits of the Middle Ages, but they taught with more simplicity and faithfulness, and not with ulterior designs of power and influence. The age of the Schoolmen was also the age of chivalry. Side by side with the education of the cloister and the cathedral was the education of the castle.
