The Reformation and
The Enlightenment
Ayana Allen
Shannon Burnett
EDCI 658 History of Education
Spring 2007
Map of Europe (c. 1560)
Timeline of the Reformation
1517 – Luther’s “Ninety-Five Theses”
1534 – Henry VII “Acts of Supremacy”
1536 – Calvin’s Institute of the Christian
Religion
1543 – Loyola’s Constitutions of the Society
1545 – Council of Trent
1555 – Peace of Augsburg
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
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“Ninety-Five Theses”
(1517)
Activist
“Justification by Faith”
Universal Literacy
Dual-Track Education
John Calvin (1509-1564)
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Institutes of the
Christian Religion
(1536)
Predestination
Universal Literacy
Dual-Track Education
Education as
Disciplinary Tool
Henry VIII (1491-1547)
Acts of Supremacy
(1534)
 Head of the Anglican
Church
 Statute of the Six
Articles (1539)
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556)
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Constitutions of the
Society (1541)
Society of Jesus
(Jesuits)
 Ratio Studiorum
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Comenius (1592-1670)
“Father of Modern Day
Education”
 Pansophism
 Theories bridged
Renaissance and The
Enlightenment
 The Great Didactic (1628)
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The Enlightenment
Age of Reason
 Progress
 Deism and the
Enlightenment
 Laissez-Faire
Economics
 Political Liberalism
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William Blake’s Isaac Newton (1795)
Laissez-Faire Economics
Francois Quesnay
 Free market economy
Adam Smith
 Free trade, economic
individualism
 “No Taxation without
Representation”
Adam Smith: Wealth of a Nation
John Locke (1632-1704)
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Political Liberalism
Jean Jacques Rousseau
(1712-1778)
Natural Education
 Emile (1762)
 Progressive
Education
 Stages of human
development
 Importance of
Sensation
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The Reformation and
The Enlightenment
Rise of Universal Literacy
 Movement away from one central Church
and authority
 Independence of Thought
 Scientific Inquiry
 Movement towards Child-Centered
Education
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References
Gutek, Gerald L. A History of the Western Educational Experience (Second
Ed.) Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland Press, 1995.
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 http://www,biocrawler.com/encyclopedia/The_Enlightment
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Answers to Quiz
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The Reformation began the dissolution of one
centralized church and authority in Europe. It played a
factor in universal literacy as individuals began to
relate to Scripture.
Martin’s “Ninety-Five Theses” were intended to call for
reform in the Catholic Church. One of his appeals was
a call to end the sale of indulgences.
John Calvin believes children are “conceived in sin, and
born of corruption.” Schools are meant to teach them
discipline.
Henry VIII secured the “Acts of Supremacy” and
became the head of the Anglican Church so that he
could divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne
Boleyn.
His philosophies (child development, teaching for a
child’s individual needs and making learning joyful)
correlate with modern-day teaching principles.
Answers to Quiz
6.
The Deists were at the forefront of the movement to
disestablish state churches and to separate the church
and state.
7. Rousseau’s Emile recounted the story of the education
of a boy from infancy to manhood?
8. Etienne Bonnot de Condillac asserted that sensation
was the source of human knowledge.
9. Through natural education people could be restored to
their original goodness and be given the stimulus and
preparation to live scientifically, rationally, and
progressively.
10. False: Laissez-Faire Economics advocated for a
Free Market Economy.