Humanism
The renaissance is generally characterized as a time period where the arts flourished. This is true, but with also came ideas of Humanity. The dominant intellectual movement of the Renaissance was humanism. This educational system emphasized the dignity and worth of the individual. Humanism originated from the study of roman and Greek classical culture, and it got its name from one of the era's earliest and most crucial concerns: the support of a new educational curriculum that put emphasis on a group of subjects known collectively as the studia humanitatis, or the humanities. humanists' were convinced that society had outgrown older ways of thought.
The purpose of a humanist education was to prepare people to lead others and participate in public life for the common good of others. The subjects of the studia humanitatis were grammar, rhetoric, history, literary studies, and moral philosophy. Many of the humanists were townspeople and no the educators. One of the first......
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