Download or read book Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters is an in-depth textbook about the history of educational institutions in Great Britain. Contents: "Introductory survey of the old system of teaching—Salutary influence of the Church—Education of Englishmen in their own homes and on the Continent—Severity of early discipline—Dr. Busby. The Foundations—Vocabularies, Glossaries, and Nominalia—Their manifold utility—Colloquy of Archbishop Alfric (tenth century)—Anglo-Gallic treatise of Alexander Neckam on utensils (twelfth century)..."