How Did Education Work in the Middle Ages?

It seems that students of the modern world and their reputation for drunken debauchery aren't too dissimilar to students of the medieval world. Lets travel back in time and learn about learning in the middle ages. Welcome to Medieval Madness!
0:00 Introduction
2:09 Boys
4:04 Girls
6:22 Monastic Schools
7:00 Grammar Schools
8:09 Universities
🎶🎶 Music by CO.AG: / @co.agmusic
Narrated & Edited by: James Wade
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[@alexanderlutz2199]

Love the fact that no matter what era in human history, you can find some chads doing what we are doing now

[@rachdarastrix5251]

Now a days people who are "educated" look down on someone they only known even existed for 5 seconds as "uneducated." Like they are superior to them. They don't even know them. For all they know that person has lived 5 times as long as them and have been "educated" from birth. Did that problem exist in the medieval period? It could explain why countryfolk are commonly depicted as rejecting education. Their way of thinking may actually be "Well I don't want to risk ending up like that arrogant asshole."

[@rennor3498]

Society will change but some things will always remain.

[@biz_bee]

These videos are so well done and criminally underrated.

[@b0rdic0n62]

Yeah lmfao

[@CountessKitten]

Agreed!

[@laurencezemlick1979]

Hilariously, it’s just a bunch of photos and some stock videos with a voice over. Not a critique at all - it’s very entertaining and educational

[@TheNinjaGumball]

9:50 my man out here rocking that traffic cone in 1247, what a madlad

[@lileric132000]

Not to mention a joint.

[@NathanDudani]

Dr. Seuss' Cat in the Hat comes to mind

[@mattert14]

Are you sure this is the Medieval era? The way you describe it sounds like a lot of the stories my parents told me of their childhood.

[@atlasshrugged583]

it's not a joke :) we are repeating our failures. why?

[@lauraz2896]

🤣🤣🤣

[@TimPerfetto]

How old are you? 500? Exactly. Go away nobody cares that you cheat death with your witchery. You were probably burned at the stake several times but just slithered out into a new vessel or a vase you made of your own hair after eating it and dying of an obstruction while stinging your own bee or other vespid maybe a fish mat or pissant rug is your type of safe place. Whatever it doesnt matter

Believe it or not many things have not changed much.

[@coryvincun5424]

Dame things new labels/ names

[@johnweinhandl8890]

Myson and I listen to your videos when I drive him to school. He’s 8. We love it. Super quality channel

[@sarahadair5890]

I do that too. I put on these and absolute history and fact feast(?) While we're driving. Never hurts to catch that history bug early!!! My daughter has been able to teach her teacher a few little known tid bits from these. You learn the neatest things!

[@davidkent6633]

The world hasn't changed much, knowledge went from being scarce to overflowing, both discouraging people from obtaining it, unless they're taught early of it's importance

[@piglo318]

What great wording you used for this. Very true

[@kateunsworth333]

your videos are so incredible, I've never cared about history before but you've got me really interested in it now! keep it up

[@80sMetalHead]

Another great one! Thanks Again. One thing: More Content!! 🤞🏻👍😉

[@darawsonnick4449]

I found my new favorite channel 😭

[@Kevan808]

Really enjoy your videos. Keep up the great work!

[@alexjackson9929]

Great video!!

[@toko_ribbon]

Wow looks like our uni/college system hasn’t changed since its start in the medieval period- I would never have thought that! Love this channel and all the videos! Cant wait to see it grow and evolve. ✨🌟

[@forickgrimaldus8301]

Its hilarious that most schools symbols looks a lot like Medieval Heraldic Achievement. And yet a ton of people still think that the Medieval period didn't have an Education system.

[@atlasshrugged583]

This shows men need to stop trying to be women. Strong women are not weak men. Women have been chastised for 1000s years because we are not men.

[@gf_real]

@@atlasshrugged583 cope harder

[@NoNo-st9bb]

@@atlasshrugged583 What!?

[@artofhobo]

My new fav channel

[@atlasshrugged583]

Sir, you are doing a service. You restored my faith that some people are keeping history alive and real. I am 67 and work with academics who have subtly changed history over 40 years. People doubting this are why our civilization continues to fail.

[@NoNo-st9bb]

Tell me more, what histories have academics changed??

[@atlasshrugged583]

@@NoNo-st9bb The confederacy, the democrat run KKK and racism caused by Southern democratic slave lovers. There's more too.

[@atlasshrugged583]

@@DG-iw3yw History changes? WTF dude

[@NoNo-st9bb]

@@atlasshrugged583 Yes, that is a fact very well known in both red and blue circles. But things have changed over the last 150 years. Democrats have almost done a complete 180. Todays it's Republicans who are much more likely to down play the effects of slavery. If you want a comparison, I'd recommend looking at both red state and blue state school text books then compare them

[@atlasshrugged583]

@@NoNo-st9bb Show me the 180?

[@silverback7675]

I have an idea for the next video. Would you be able to do an in-depth story about the Bayeux Tapestry?

[@CountessKitten]

Would love that! What a miraculous piece of embroidery! It's stunningly beautiful, tells many stories, and has lasted well over a thousand years! I ♥️ the Bayeux Tapestry!

[@NoName-yz6wu]

Is the picture with that lad smoking a fat blunt with a traffic cone on his head from medieval times?

[@maya07_11]

my parents were born in the 80s and they didn't study English in elementary school (my dad didn't even study it in middle school ) yet there were some dudes in the 1400s learning it. that's crazy

[@ninagill1407]

Strange. I was born in the 70s and we studied English in schools.

[@34541659]

I was born in 91 and we didn't study English until high school :)

[@davesaia5335]

Great summary!

[@javasrevenge7121]

A great upload again :)

[@freemanrader75]

As a scientist I would recommend an individual spec into the monk skill tree to aquire enlightenment and attentional will based skills primarily before choosing any other path. Youd be surprised to learn that after years of labored study, intellect is a very effective spiritual paperweight without the understanding to match. Also anything laborous is a result of friction meaning theres a better method thats both easier and more complete waiting to be discovered by those able to see, nothing is truly invented by mankind save for corrupt devices.

[@jakejake708]

Nice to see we haven't changed much

[@angelcastro3129]

The more things change, the more they stay the same... It seems as if societally we are in an eternal loop. Technologies change, fashions change but not how we live our lives.

[@maleaeavenson3625]

How would you change.

[@angelcastro3129]

@@maleaeavenson3625 Walk to the beat of your own drum. Break old habits that hold you down. Follow your intuition, not the narrative set by others. Peace

[@maleaeavenson3625]

@@angelcastro3129 Henry Thoreau was a thinker but it doesn't apply to the question and is not the solution . .that's few too many to lead a fallen race

[@maleaeavenson3625]

@@angelcastro3129 Doesn't everybody. Quoting Thoreau is not changing morality. High minded thinking is admirable but mans law and silly philosophy are foolish.

[@maleaeavenson3625]

To quote George Satayana "Those who do not remember their history are doomed to repeat it...

[@ernestweaver9720]

I'm about twelve credits short from obtaining my Associates. Why? I went to JC in the early eighties after serving in the Navy. I had to work to keep a roof over my future wife and I and to pay other bills plus food of course. It was the Price of the books. They were out of control back then. I was planning on getting a masters but money for College shot my dreams down.

[@chellastation]

Education can be crazy and fun. Thank you 📖🥳⚔

[@cris3758]

9:24 yo! my university!

[@amandanowicki5294]

Poor kids could go to school. They would go through the church and become known as chiro boys or chiro girls. A handful of chiro boys grew up to be bishops or cardinals. Books were so highly coveted that people would leave them in wills.

[@Truthorfib]

I’d like to know about the life of a medieval blacksmith

[@salmathecopt7969]

What we lost 💔

[@Banter07]

Why does the middle one look like mr. Bean? 4:22

[@wilhelminamarquart240]

Wonderful video and most informative thank you.

[@kLakics]

Figures the last major update to our education system was in the middle ages.

[@michaelhayes4537]

Dice games? Was gambling not one of the causes thought by Medieval superstitions to be a cause of the plague?

[@brutusmuerto]

Is that a doobie at 9:52

[@natefish3989]

Cruel twist of fate that I have thousands of dollars in debt because some group of guys wanted to get together and study Bible verses in the park 900 years ago

[@deovillaflores623]

@medievalMadness Did the King and Queen control education during the Medieval period?

[@hishamsadiq4104]

It was mostly the Catholic Church.

[@mingthan7028]

Guess It's my time for a comeback to Maths 😂

[@Voirreydirector]

I found this one much less detailed, almost rushed. Over all I have been pleased with this channel, but this one, maybe it’s the Amish buggy that’s bothering me, I dunno.

[@jakelm4256]

2:35 Astronomy is the science that was studied by all students. He says they were “based on theory” as if that is a negative. Every science is based on theoretical foundations. And the claim they were “based on superstition” is just false and ignorant. This entire video is a complete oversimplification of the real educational system at that point.

[@coxmosia1]

Some of the first universities were founded in Africa. Research it.

[@Dont_insult_people]

Apparently not

[@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311]

Books - highly expensive? Is that REALLY what we would say in English? Is it?

[@nazlsenay7312]

.

[@g.wilson8463]

Too many adds

[@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311]

Uiuuuggggghhhh my GOD!!! MEMORISED EQUALS BY HEART. Therefore MEMORISED by HEART EQUALS TORTOLOGY.

[@TimPerfetto]

Hellow yes what shut up hello go away oh ok hello

[@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311]

So no space whatsoever is given to the consideration of Rule 6 versus Rule 9 which, given the most ELEMENTARY reading ability and intelligence, would have been HGHLY QUESTIONABLE even to a Mediæval PEASANT .....

[@venus_envy]

Medieval peasants could by and large all read and write in their own languages, because all you need to know to be able to do that, especially before spelling was standardized, is your own language's writing system (the alphabet). It was reading and writing in Latin which would be rare or practically unheard of among the peasantry.

[@maiqtheliar789]

Reading and writing are damned useful in any level of life and even a small child can learn what sounds the letters represent and sound out the words to spell based on the sound of the word. Most language spellings weren't standardized until well after the medieval period. But typically some but not all peasants could read and write in their own language. Might only be a few people in a village that could but those people would have been valued. People wanting to be able to read the bible in their own languages was one of the big issues that later led to the reformation which wouldn't have happened if very few people could read in those languages.

[@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311]

@@maiqtheliar789 👍No qualms about any of that - in fact in mentioning the discord between Rules VI and IX, I was rather making the assumption that someone was able to read the Rules (which come up on screen about 3mins 52sec) in the first place and therefore to discern that VI was admonishing to wage war against Muslims while IX was saying be nice to everyone. My suggestion was that it didn't strike me as requiring any particular schooling or intelligence to appreciate they were at odds with each other and that ultimately therefore, they were rather arbitrary..... and in discerning that, surely that then undermined them all....

[@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311]

No attempt even made at Tyranis ludi magistrorum.....

[@Jimothy-723]

unfortunately, this entire video is wrong about everything it states.

[@bobsbigboy_]

Alright genius, where are your sources?

[@Number6_]

So girls had the upper hand, but lost it as time continued. So much for feminism!

[@kristiskinner8542]

Uh no. Im not a labrador & can live without a man. Marriage & kids arent every womans want or priority in life

[@MioAkiyama3686]

what are you talking about?

[@WildWinterberry]

Are you serious?

[@Number6_]

Watch and learn girls.

[@bengeurden1272]

2:35 Astrology or astronomy? Crucial difference. Astrology is a speudoscience, astronomy is science. ;)

[@Omni_Shambles]

Sounds like the graduates of Eaton College today! 🤣