Chapter XII: The Humanistic Education 99

The Passing of the Middle Ages. The Renaissance
and the Revival of Learning. Causes of the Awakening
in Italy. The Revival of the Latin Classics. The Development
of Greek Scholarship. The Court Schools
and Vittorino da Feltre. The Court School at Mantua.
The Relation of the Court Schools to the Universities.
Decadence of Italian Humanism. The Spread and Character
of Humanism in the Northern Countries. The Development
of Humanism in France. French Humanistic
Educators and Institutions. Humanism in the German
Universities. The Hieronymians and Their Schools.
Erasmus, Leader in the Humanistic Education of the
North. The Development of Gymnasiums: Melanchthon’s
Work. Sturm at Strassburg. Formalism in the
Gymnasiums. The Humanistic Movement in England:
Greek at Oxford and Cambridge. Humanism at the
Court Colet and His School at St. Paul’s. Humanism
in the English Grammar Schools. English Grammar and
Public Schools To-day. The Grammar Schools in the
American Colonies. The Aim and Institutions of Humanistic
Education.