ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the new spirit of christianity; the poverty of the early christian centuries in respect of education; the fathers of the church; saint jerome and the education of girls; physical asceticism; intellectgal and moral asceticism; permanent truths. It also talks about intellectual feebleness of the middle age; causes of the ignorance of the middle age; the three renascences; charlemagne; alcuin; the successors of charlemagne; scholasticism; abelard; the seven liberal arts; methods and discipline; the universities; gerson; vittorino da feltre. The Christian instruction was addressed to barbarous peoples who could not at once rise to a high intellectual and moral culture. The social condition of the men who first attached themselves to the new religion turned them aside from the studies which are a preparation for real life. The Catholic church has sometimes been held responsible for the causes of the Ignorance of the Middle Age.
