Schools General

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Schooling did not develop until the end of the 11th century, mainly under the direction of the monasteries and the Church. The basic instruction in Latin consisted of seven liberal arts: the trivium - grammar; Latin, rhetoric, dialectic - and the quadrivium - mathematics, geometry, astronomy and church music. During the High Middle Ages, there were two-tiered Latin schools for boys - girls were rarely educated. In fact - education generally did not hold the same value as it does today, most of the nobility and wealthy bourgeoisie were illiterate and hired scribes when needed.
Later, centres of secular education were established in the cities, the peak of which was the founding of the University of International Studies in Prague by Emperor Charles IV in 1348.

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