Football,
with hog bladders, and tennis were played. These schools were
self-supporting and did their own farming.
Private schools for girls were founded in and around London. They
were attended by daughters of the well-to-do merchant class,
nobility, and gentry. They were taught singing, playing of
instruments, dancing, French, fine sewing, embroidery, and
sometimes arithmetic. Fewer served in the house of some noble lady
as before. Most commonly, the sons and daughters of gentlemen and
nobles were taught by private tutors. A tutor in the house
educated the girls to the same extent as the boys. There were not
many girls' boarding schools. Frequently, the mother educated her
daughters. A considerable number of girls of other backgrounds
such as the yeomanry and the town citizenry somehow learned to
read and write.
Boys began at university usually from age 14 to 18, but sometimes
as young as 12. The universities provided a broad-based education
in the classics, logic and rhetoric, history, theology, and modern
languages for gentlemen and gave a homogenous national culture to
the ruling class. There was a humanist ideal of a gentleman
scholar. The method of study based largely on lectures and
disputations. Each fellow had about five students to tutor. In
many cases, he took charge of the finances of his students, paying
his bills to tradesmen and the college. His reimbursement by the
students' fathers put them into friendly contact with the family.
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